■ Date: March 5(Mon.)-8(Thurs.), 2018

■ Venue: Kobe City, Miki City, and Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

■ Participants
○A total of 28 participants: 24 participants from 15 organizations across four countries, four NEAR Secretariat staff members
• Japan(1): Hyogo Prefecture
• South Korea (5): Ulsan Metropolitan City, Busan Metropolitan City, Daejeon Metropolitan City, Chungchengbuk-do Province, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province (7 participants)
• China (1): Hunan Province, (2 participants)
• Mongolia (7): Arkhangai Province, Uvurkhangai Province, Orkhon Province, Dornogovi Province, Bayan-Ulgii Province, Bayanhongor Province, Khentii Province (13 participants)
•Russia (2): Sakhalin Region, Primorsky Territory (2 participants)

■Meeting Details
○ March 5 (Mon.)
• Welcoming Session
- Vice governor of Hyogo Prefecture, superintendent of Hyogo Prefecture's disaster prevention department, and consulate staff from the consulate of three countries, including the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Osaka.

○ March 6 (Tue.)
• Visit to the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution
-Video screening of earthquake disaster and recovery (the Great Hanshin Earthquake and Great East Japan Earthquake) and Disaster Prevention Workshop
• Presentation titled “Hyogo Prefecture’s Measure for Disaster Prevention” by Disaster Prevention Policy Division

○ March 7 (Wed.)
• Hyogo Anti-Disaster Center
- Lecture “the Lesson for Disaster Prevention from Hansin-Awazi Earthquake”, tour to reserve storage, and simulation of real-time disaster situation
• Visit to Himeji Disaster Prevention Center
-First UNESCO World Heritage Site in Japan, status assigned in 1995
-Presentations titled the preservation of cultural assets against natural disasters such as earthquakes

○ March 8 (Thur.)
•Departure