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[Identification of item], in Rebun Kayo Hiroshima Landslide Recovery Photographs, Videos, and Related Materials, #60002, UNC Libraries General Archival Collections, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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The collection was donated to the Davis Library East Asian Resources at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by Rebun Kayo in the fall of 2014.

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• Hiroshima (Japan)--Photographs.
• Kayo, Rebun.
• Landslide hazard analysis--Photographs.

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 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.

The 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.