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Part1:The Role of Museums in Remembering and Recording Tsunami

 

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Mayumi Sakamoto

Chief Researcher, DRI

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Disater Reduction and Human Renovation Instituion

Rahmadhani

Director, Aceh Tsunami Museum

Biography
 Born November 11, 1970 in Lhokseumawe, Aceh, Indonesia. He was an AusAid Postgraduate student (Master of Business) specializing in tourism management. His has been the Director of Aceh Tourism Promotion, Marketing Department of Aceh Culture and Tourism Agency. Currently his is the Director of the Aceh Tsunami Museum. He is active in many activities related to the musum both within Indonsia and overseas.

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Satoshi Kumgai

Senior Curator, Sea and Shell Museum, and Rikuzentaka City Museum

Biography
 Born in 1966, graduated in 1990 from Tohoku Gakuin University from the History and Litrature deprment (animal archeology). In 1995 he became the curator of the Sea and Shell Museum (concurrent post with the Rikuzentaka City Musuem), in 2005 he became the Senior Curator of the Sea and Shell Museum (concurrent post with e Rikuzentaka City Musuem), and from 2011 has be carrying out the rescue of items from the Sea and Shell Museum, Rikuzentaka City Musuem and other cultural artifacts.

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Hiroyuki Hashimoto

Professor of Japanese Literature, Morioka University Literature Department

Biography
 Born in 1961in Osaka Prefecture. Graudate degree from Waseda University in Literature, and Post Graduate Course in Fine Arts (Theater), Doctorate in Literature.? Assistant of the Folklore and Folklife Resarch section of the National Museum of Japanese History, currently a Professor of Japanese Literature in the Morioka University Literature Department. His major field is the study of folklore and theature.? A member of the Iwate Prefecture committe for the preservation of cultrual property, he designed the exhibit for Misawa City Historical archive, and is in charge of the exhibte "Earthquake and Rumblings of the Sea...Look out! Tsunami 2011--the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster that attacted the Fishery Industry."

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