@article{14c481947bff4a8d9bb9b6fbee5a173a,
title = "Special issue on the heavy rain event of July 2018 in western Japan",
abstract = "The unprecedented heavy rainfall that occurred in western Japan in 2018 caused flooding, inundation, and sediment disasters extending over a wide area, resulting in various types of damage to lifelines, transport systems, diverse structures and so on, and exposing problems that extend across many sectors. One of the major roles of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers is to compile disaster survey data regarding the frequent occurrence of increasingly severe disasters in recent years and then share this information widely with the public. In order to contribute to the development of disaster prevention technologies and academic fields, this special issue is devoted to a collection of reports and preliminary research papers regarding the 2018 heavy rain event in western Japan. Some of the Japanese papers have been translated into English and posted on the Journal of JSCE.",
keywords = "2018 Japan floods, Baiu front, Lifeline, Sediment disaster, Traffic network, Typhoon prapiroon",
author = "Tatsuhiko Uchida and Yoshihisa Akamatsu and Yoshiharu Suzuki and Shuji Moriguchi and Yasushi Oikawa and Hiromi Shirahata and Norihiro Izumi",
note = "Funding Information: Despite the tight schedule for the publication of this special issue, we received many submissions of valuable studies and research relating to the heavy rain event that occurred in western Japan in 2018. The planning committee for the special issue was made up of the authors, Takeshi Miyashita, Riki Honda, Tomohide Okada, Junko Sanada, Shinichiro Nakajima, Yasutaka Sagawa, Isamu Otsuka, Shin Yamaguchi, Yoshiaki Kikuchi, Takashi Goso, Kazuya Itaya, Yasutoshi Nomura, and Eiji Haramoto. The committee members worked tirelessly to review the papers that had been submitted for the special issue. Moreover, the reviewers understood that the goal of the special issue project was to publicly release information on the true story of the heavy rain event in western Japan as quickly as possible, and they conducted a careful and appropriate review in a short period. We would like to express our gratitude to the committee members for their invaluable contribution to this project. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Japan Society of Civil Engineers. All rights reserved.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.2208/JOURNALOFJSCE.9.1_1",
language = "English",
volume = "9",
pages = "1--7",
journal = "Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers",
issn = "2187-5103",
publisher = "Japan Society of Civil Engineers",
number = "1",
}