Purposes

• To better understand strategic risks to our country’s vital interests and sustainability
  • Broader societal safety and security beyond classic national security
• To provide administrative and political impetus for enhancement of cross-governmental risk management and resilience
• To help the public foster risk awareness through dissemination of the research outcomes

Scopes

• Risk category: geopolitical, economic, environmental, social, and technological risks
• Impacts/consequences category: human welfare (loss of human life, human illness or injury, homelessness, physical disruption to people’s daily lives), environment, economy and assets, territory, and socio-psycho- culture(social unrest, community disruption, etc.)
• Time horizon: short term (within the next 5 years) and medium term (in 5 to 10 years)
• Hazards and threats: malicious, non-malicious, and cross-border
  • Natural disasters, manmade disasters (cyber attacks, terrorism, etc.), and industrial accidents

Approach

• In-house task force (mainly hearing from experts of U-Tokyo)
• Web questionnaire survey on risk awareness (decision-makers in the public and private sectors)
• Workshops as a place of inter-agency and cross-sectoral collaboration