Japan Data Profile

This article is part of the Honshu Quake initiative.

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Main pages

Honshu Quake Initative Japan Data Profile Public Safety COD 101 Honshu category pages

COMMON OPERATIONAL DATASETS

The following are groupings of data feeds in accordance of the ISAC Common Operational Guidance by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Humanitarian Profile

• Internally Displaced
• Non-displaced affected
• Host family/resident community affected
• Refugee
• Dead
• Injured
• Missing

• Locate Your Relatives by ICRC FamilyLinks.icrc.org ([1]) (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese)

Population Statistics

• Total population by admin level (Individuals) - Feb/11 - Latest Data 12,737 (M) Japan Bureau of Statistics

• National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (2008) - XLS Data
• E-Statistics - Population
• World Population Density KML

• Total population by admin level (Number of Households)
• Age (See Above)
• Sex (See ABove)
• Average family size by admin level (See Above)
• Unique identifier
• More Populated Places

Administrative Boundaries

• P- Code
• Name

• Shapefiles for Japanese Prefectural boundaries circa 1990

Populated Places

• Unique identifier (P-Code)
• Names

• Hokkaido Prefectural Government - RSS Catalog
• Prefectural Government - RSS Catalog
• Iwate Prefectural Government (Servers are down)
• Miyagi Prefectural Government - No RSS
• Sendai City Government - XML News Feed feed://www.city.sendai.jp/news/rss/news.xml more on Japan_Sendai_Data_Profile
• Akita Prefectural Government - No RSS, No Emergency Info
• Yamagata Prefectural Government - No RSS, No Emergency Info
• Fukushima Prefectural Government - No RSS, No Emergency Info

• Fukushima Prefecture Municipal offices of cities, towns, and villages

• Ibaraki Prefectural Government (Useful disaster information in English)
• Tochigi Prefectural Government (Japanese Only)
• Gunma Prefectural Government (Limited information in English)
• Saitama Prefectural Government
• Chiba Prefectural Government Chiba Prefecture Emergency News
• Tokyo Metropolitan Government
• Kanagawa Prefectural Government Earthquake Information

• Size classification
• Population statistics (See Above in Population Section)
• Status if capital of administrative division
• Type: Prefectural Government

Transportation Network

• Roads (Classified by size)

• Traffic Data via Google Crisis Response
• Domestic Passenger Transport stats - XLS file

• Railways

• Domestic Freight Transport Stats - XLS file

• Airports/helipads
• Seaports
• More See Japan_Transportation

• Search Routes and the timetables of the railways and aviation of Japan - (NB. this doesn't take account of cancellations or recent timetable changes)

• All current public transportation options (road, rail, air) between Sendai, Tokyo, Osaka and Niigata (Yamagata prefecture) - PDF, regularly updated

Hydrology

• Rivers (Classified by size)
• Water bodies

• Japan Meteorological Agency Daily Wave Analysis Around Japan
• Japan Meteorological Agency Daily Wave Analysis Western North Pacific
• NOAA Wave Height Visualization and Google Tsunami Forecast KML

• More Japan_Geography

Hypsography

• Elevation

• Participatory Geographic Information Systems and Technologies - Digital Elevation Model Data - Open Resources

• Resolution
• More Japan_Geography

• A variety of GIS data of Japan, including Hypsography, Hydrography and Elevation Data

Japanese Government (Webpages)

• Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet - No RSS
• Japan Meteorological Agency - Data Source
• Economic and Financial Data for Japan - Japan Statistics Bureau - Data Source
• Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency - No RSS
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan - No RSS
• Full Agency Listing from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare - Including Intl Sources
• National Center for Global Health and Medicine - XLS Data
• Japan Coast Guard Data Collection via Google Translate
• Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency - All updates are in PDF Only
• Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry - News RSS Feed - feed://www.meti.go.jp/english/en_news.rdf
• Japan National Tourist Organization - LONG list of news and links from government sources (could be used to populate pages here)

Critical Infrastructure & Key Resources

Power/Nuclear

• Map of Japan nuclear power stations
• TEPCO official site with reactor updates
• Location of Nuclear Power Plants in Japan
• Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (national nuclear industry forum)
• Daily update from Japan from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• International Atomic Energy Agency, Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update Log
• Japan Radiation Map in Japanese and in English

Telecommunications

• Mobile Charging Stations - XLS
• Zerin (GIS Data Providers
• eMobile Teleco Provider Press Release Page - No RSS Available
• NTT Teleco Provider RSS/XML Catalog

• [feed://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/rss/service.rdf NTT Teleco Provider Service - RSS Feed]

• TopNews International Atomic Energy Agency Top News RSS Feed
• KDDI Telco Provider XML Feed: feed://www.kddi.com/news/news_release/rss/kddi_news_release.xml

Hospitals/Health

• Hospitals/Clinics Who Provide Dialysis (Names, No Addresses)

Language assistance and translation

• Japan Association of Translators - Language translators who have volunteered to help with relief efforts. Many offer help via telephone, as well as in person
• Telephone information service for foreign Tourists - PDF file

Maps/GIS Data

• ESRI Disaster Maps

• Japan Earthquake Map
• ESRI Japan

• E-Statistics - Population
• GISNP - Includes block groups and street level data
• Google Crisis Response Resources

• Post-Earthquake Imagery KML
• Google Crisis Response (AU)

• Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis - Animated Map
• Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI)

• Postseismic Slip Distribution Model
• Coseismic Slip Distribution Model
• Crustal Deformation and Fault Model
• Landslide Moment Map
• Fault Model - Preliminary

• International Charter, Space and Major Disaster Products
• Mississippi Delta State
• Open Street Map Sendai Earthquake Resources

• Visualizations via OSM
• Photos of OSM Maps

• Pasco: Info on NE Pacific Ocean Earthquake - JAXA/ALOS/PRISM/AVNIR-2
• United Nations

• UN-SPIDER map and links

• University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA)

• GIS Hub

• Pacific Disaster Center interactive map

• PDC EMOPS Portal (password protected)
• Pacific Disaster Center Active Hazards REST Service

• United States Geological Service

• USGS Google Earth/KML Files

GIS Tools

• XML2SHP Tool (in Japanese)
• Participatory Geographic Information Systems and Technologies - Free and Open Source GIS Software
• The New Geodetic Reference System of Japan by the Geographical Survey Institute - English language documentation for JGD2000, the geographic coordinate system and datum adopted by the Japanese government, as well as limited information about the former Tokyo Datum.
• Japan GIS (PDF)
• Yahoo Map API provides a functionality called "blankmap"(白地図) which colors area per surrounding city or district area code
• Old Geocities Blankmap
• District info can be downloaded from here (not the government official page)
• Google Group notes the inability to have similar blank map functionality

Imagery

• Digital Globe Imagery Gallery
• DLR
• GeoEYE Featured Satellite Image
• GSI Earthquake Affected Maps and Aerial Imagery
• Sentinel Asia - MTSAT Imargery
• Japan Meterological Agency Satellite Imagery
• Participatory GIS and Technology: Free satellite imagery - 12 Open Repositories
• UN Spider: Space-based info for Earthquake in Japan - Hi Res & KML Available
• FTP access for all FORMOSAT-2 Imageries & L2 Panned-Sharpened Imagery - Request FTP Access from Chang Kuo-Chen kcchang (at) ntnu.edu.tw
• United States National Geospatial Agency

Data	Format	Language	Provider	Date
Satellite Imagery	[KML]	English	Google, GeoEye, DigitalGlobe	March 14, 2011
Satellite Imagery	[KML]	Japanese	Google, GeoEye, DigitalGlobe	March 14, 2011

Earthquake Info

• USGS Earthquake Feeds and Data Catalog
• Harvard University's Japan Sendai Earthquake Data Portal RSS feed

GIVE THANKS

The above data sets were provided by:

• Volunteer Name, Country, Skype ID
• Trey Smith, San Francsisco, CA, USA, trey.smith@gmail.com, skype:trey9000
• willowbl00, Seattle WA (currently in Indiana), see profile for contact
• matglas86, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Ibrahim K. Oyekanmi, Kano, Nigeria SkypeID: mallamibro
• Michelle Cadieux, USA http://groups.to/communitysafetyprograms, communitysafetyprograms@yahoo.com skype:creativecommunications2. Donations and volunteer management.
• Justin Tung, Toronto, Canada, skype:justin.tung.online, see profile for contact
• Twitter @AnthroPunk, email sally@sally.com
• Daniel Ayers, Auckland NZ
• Kristopher Kleva, USA, twitter @klevland
• Laura Thieme, USA, Laura.Thieme
• Joanna Lane, New York, USA, skype: joannalane
• Mayuri Das, Dayton, Ohio, USA skype:dasmayuri
• Jason Wadsworth, Adelaide, Australia, jason@horizonmapping.com, skype:jrwads74
• Greg Barrett, San Francisco Bay Area, USA skype:grebbarrett
• George Oliver, Tempe, AZ, USA skype:gyoliver
• Nick Arnett, Santa Clara, CA, USA, nick.arnett@gmail.com skype:nickarnett
• Matt Matheson, Brighton, UK, matt.matheson@nixonmcinnes.co.uk, skype:slipmatt959, Twitter @slipmatt
• Hiro Iseki, Maryland, USA, skype: roomskame
• Miraj Khaled, Vancouver, Canada, skype: techiemik
• Michael Pike, Barnsley, UK, skype: enablingsecurity, Twitter @michaelpike
• Richard Chamberlain, Seattle, USA, skype: granite00

See Also

• Japan Sendai Data Profile
• Honshu Quake