The following is a guest post by Sayuri Umeda, senior foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress. Sayuri has previously published the following posts: National Holiday Laws in Selected Asian Countries, Voting in Public Elections Across Selected Asian Countries, FALQs: South Korean Martial Law, and The History of the Elimination of Leaded Gasoline, among others.
Please join us on August 28, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. EDT, for another entry into our Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar series with our “Japan’s Legal Framework on Earthquake Mitigation Strategies” webinar.
Japan is prone to earthquakes. Certainly, a major earthquake on the scale of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake will occur in the future. Japan is also prone to many other natural disasters, such as typhoons, and has extensive laws related to disaster management. This webinar will examine how the Japanese government has prepared to mitigate damage from earthquakes that Japan has experienced in the past, and how it has prepared for future earthquakes. We will discuss the measures taken by the Japanese government to ensure a comprehensive response to natural disasters, the process of its ongoing review, and introduce the latest earthquake management laws.
Sayuri Umeda is a senior foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress. She conducts research and writes reports on a wide range of topics relating primarily to the laws of Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Southeast Asian countries. Sayuri earned a LL.B. degree from Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan, and a LL.M. degree from the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. She was a member of the Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association in Japan and is currently a member of the New York Bar.
