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Size | 1,297 items |
Abstract | Rebun Kayo is a researcher at Hiroshima University, in Hiroshima, Japan, and has served as a volunteer worker for several natural disaster relief programs in Japan. On 20 August 2014, a massive rainstorm hit Hiroshima City, Japan, and triggered a series of landslides that hit residential areas and resulted in the death of 74 people. In fall of 2014, Kayo served as an assistant to Makoto Yokofujita, a visiting scholar of the Carolina Asia Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. This collection contains digital images and videos that Rebun Kayo took during the immediate response to the landslide in Hiroshima City, Japan 20-24 and 30 August 2014. There are 1,280 digital image files and 17 digital video files. Also included is a copy of the 21 August 2014 edition of Chugoku Shimbun, a newspaper published in Hiroshima that contains extensive coverage of the disaster, some fragments of granite Kayo collected while at a disaster site in 3-chrome, Yagi, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima City. |
Creator | Kayo, Rebun. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. UNC Libraries General Archival Collections. |
Language | English, Japanese |
Processed by: Patrick Cullom, July 2015
Encoded by: Patrick Cullom, July 2015
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, February 2021
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Back to TopRebun Kayo is a researcher at Hiroshima University, in Hiroshima, Japan, and has served as a volunteer worker for several natural disaster relief programs. In fall of 2014, Rebun Kayo served as an assistant to Makoto Yokofujita, a visiting scholar of the Carolina Asia Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. Before working with Makoto Yokofujita, Rebun Kayo served as the chairman of the Association of Hiroshima University for "Sending an Atomic-Bombed Roof Tile" project. The organzation collected fragments of the "Atomic Bomb Dome" from the Motoyasu River and donated these fragments to universities around the world for "peace education." The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received roof tiles from the organization in 2011.
On 20 August 2014, a massive rainstorm hit Hiroshima City, Japan, and triggered a series of landslides that hit residential areas and resulted in the death of 74 people. The event was the largest landslide disaster in almost 30 years and revealed the vulnerability of Japan to natural disasters like landslides. The collection highlights how the expansion of residential districts in Japan to hills and slopes (due to geographic constraints of living on an island) are creating worsening risks associated with natural disasters.
Back to TopThe Rebun Kayo Hiroshima Landslide Recovery Photographs, Videos, and Related Materials contain digital image and video files taken by Kayo while serving as a volunteer worker on-site in Hiroshima City, Japan, while responding to a series of landslides that occurred in Hiroshima City on 20 August 2014. The digital images and videos were taken by Rebun Kayo during the immediate response to the landslide in Hiroshima City, Japan 20-24 and 30 August 2014.
The images depict activities in three areas of Hiroshima: 3-chrome, Yagi, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima City; 7-chrome, Midorii, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima City; and The Yagi Abunosato Housing District. The collection is composed of digital images and video taken with a Cannon IXY 90 F, the 21 August 2014 issue of Chugoku Shimbun, and some fragments of granite collected from a disaster site.
Back to TopArrangement: Subject/chronological.
Images depict scenes from the aftermath of massive rainstorm and resulting landslide in Hiroshima City, Japan on 20 August 2014.
Kayo visited three areas while in Hiroshima, 3-chrome, Yagi, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima City; 7-chrome, Midorii, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima City; and The Yagi Abunosato Housing District. The collection is composed of images taken with a Cannon IXY 90 F, the 21 August 2014 issue of Chugoku Shimbun, and some fragments of granite collected from disaster site.
Digital Folder DF-60002/0001 |
Hiroshima landslide recovery photographs, 20 August 2014Digital Files 98 images
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Digital Folder DF-60002/0002 |
Hiroshima landslide recovery photographs, 21 August 2014Digital Files 97 images
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Digital Folder DF-60002/0003 |
Hiroshima landslide recovery videos, 21 August 2014Digital Files 5 videos
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Digital Folder DF-60002/0004 |
Chugoku Shimbun, 21 August 2014Digital Files 1 .pdf (33 images) Chugoku Shimbun is a local and major newspaper published in Hiroshima, Japan. The 21 August issue reports the landslides disaster with photographs. Physical item is in GAC-60002 Box 1 |
Digital Folder DF-60002/0005 |
Hiroshima landslide recovery photographs, 22 August 2014Digital Files 1 image
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Digital Folder DF-60002/0006 |
Hiroshima landslide recovery videos, 22 August 2014Digital Files 4 videos
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Digital Folder DF-60002/0007 |
Hiroshima landslide recovery photographs, 23 August 2014Digital Files 680 images
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Digital Folder DF-60002/0008 |
Hiroshima landslide recovery videos, 23 August 2014Digital Files 7 videos
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Digital Folder DF-60002/0009 |
Hiroshima landslide recovery photographs, 24 August 2014Digital Files 300 images
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Digital Folder DF-60002/0010 |
Hiroshima landslide recovery videos, 24 August 2014Digital Files 1 video
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Digital Folder DF-60002/0011 |
Hiroshima landslide recovery photographs, 30 August 2014Digital Files 102 images
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Digital Folder DF-60002/0012 |
Granite fragments, August 2014Digital Files 2 images (4 Fragments) Physical items are in box 1 |
Box 1 |
Chugoku Shimbun, 21 August 2014 |
Fragments of granite collected from a disaster site |