Professor Takara has been elected as the next Director of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (16 January 2015)

The professors council of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute has elected Professor Kaoru Takara as the next Director of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute. The term is for two years, starting on 1 April 2015.

• The website of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute
  http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/web_e/index_e.html