ABOUT THIS WEBSITE

First of all, we sincerely hope that you, your loved ones, and your colleagues are in safe condition and doing well.

In the early afternoon of Friday, March 11, 2011, Japan was hit by the strongest earthquake in its recorded history (9.0 magnitude) that triggered a series of tsunamis and strong aftershocks and devastated a number of towns and provinces in Japan resulting to hundreds of persons missing or dead. Although far from the epicenter of the quake, Tokyo itself was brought down to a standstill when its transportation and telecommunication systems were knocked down by the powerful effect of the quake.

Unfortunately, things are expected to get more challenging in the coming days as Japan and her people reel from the full effects of this calamity for weeks, months, or even years to come.

And in the forefront of this crisis are your fellow Japan HR professionals who will be the one to face the many challenges of addressing the current and future needs of their companies and their employees to cope up with this crisis from the HR perspective. For sure these challenges will be great but experience have also taught us that reaching out to others greatly ease up the burden ahead.

In this regard,  The Japan HR Society (JHRS) is pleased to announce the creation of a special section of our website called The JHRS Quake Center 2011 which aims to provide valuable resources and information for Japan HR professionals to help deal with the current crisis.

OTHER RESOURCES

• (NEW) JHRS Radiation Watch: Reading of Environmental Radioactivity Level by Prefecture (English, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese versions)
  
• Crisis Management for Earthquakes, Tsunamis, & Nuclear Disasters for HR Professionals
  
• Helping: Coping After the Earthquake--DO's and DON'Ts by TELL Japan
  
• Katrina provided tough lessons for HR leaders, firms - http://www.shrm.org/Publications/HRNews/Pages/CMS_017958.aspx     

• Business response seen as crucial to disaster recovery - http://www.shrm.org/Publications/HRNews/Pages/CMS_016508.aspx

• Crisis management of human resources: lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/169413776.html 

• Live Earthquake NHK News Feed (In Japanese) - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-gtv
• Japanese News Cast (in English) - http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
• Japan Earthquake Safety Manual - http://nip0.wordpress.com/about/
  
• Various sources of media in one place:
  http://www.infowars.com/tracking-page-japans-nuclear-meltdown-aftershocks-fallout/
• PDF download for U.S. Army Survival Guide
  http://www.equipped.com/fm3-0570.htm
  
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA):
  http://www.fema.gov/hazard/nuclear/index.shtm
  
• Radiation sickness-overview. University of Maryland Medical Center.
  http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/000026.htm
  
• Radiation sickness – Symptoms. Mayo Clinic.
  http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/radiation-sickness/DS00432/DSECTION=symptoms
  
• Radiation sickness, MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia.
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000026.htm
  
• Emergency Preparedness for a Nuclear Power Station Problem:
  o Denver: http://www.denvernc.com/nuclear.htm
  o Orange County:
  http://san-clemente.org/sc/Inf/EmergencyPlan/WelcomeEmerPlanning/WhitePages_Eva
  c_2009.pdf
  o San Luis Obispo County: http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/OES/NPPInfo.htm
• Nuclear emergencies – Information for the Public:
  http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAwebFile/HPAweb_C/1272031417941
• CDC: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/factsheets.asp
  
• International Atomic Energy Agency: http://www.iaea.org/
  http://www-naweb.iaea.org/nafa/about-nafa/index.html