From 20 July to 3 August 2019, nine MDRM students together with faculty members and strategic partners participated in MDRM Japan Attachment 2019. This program intends to take students out of the classroom after a year of intensive taught program in Malaysia to take part in a 2-week field program in Japan to visit DRM sites and have discussions with disaster managers and community leaders.
The program consists of Kanto (Tsukuba, Tokyo) and Kansai (Kyoto, Kobe, Osaka) programs with hands-on topics ranging from flood control, sediment disaster prevention measures, remote sensing technology for DRR, community based DRR, cultural heritage DRR and emergency medicine.
All MDRM students are eligible to join the Japan Attachment program upon completion of taking the required taught courses in the MDRM program.