Tokyo is no stranger to heat and other extreme weather, as well as being one of the world’s most densely populated cities, home to over 14 million people. Discover three ways Japan\u2019s capital is working to keep people safe in the face of climate challenges, and see how resilience can be woven into everyday life, communities, and businesses.
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Everyday Readiness: Making Resilience Part of Daily Life<\/p>\n
As extreme weather becomes part of daily urban life, the Tokyo-based startup Sakigake Japan is working to get resilience built into everyday routines. The company connects disaster-preparedness and climate-adaptation solutions with real-world use, creating value in normal times and becoming essential when crises strike.
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\nOne of their solutions is an AI- and cloud-based platform that visualizes weather and flood risk, which is particularly important in Tokyo, where sudden, localized downpours can overwhelm infrastructure. The platform helps estimate inundation risks specific areas face, supporting earlier precautions and better planning.
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\nThe increasing heat is also a major concern that must be addressed, as if a large disaster hits in summer and air conditioning stops, temperatures in homes and other buildings can quickly become life-threatening.<\/p>\n
Mobile cold-chain solutions could address that gap. Portable refrigeration units used for events and logistics in normal times, can then shift to evacuation support for food, beverages, and medicine during emergencies. In addition to being movable, they can operate off-grid when external power is lost, enabling faster, more localized responses when transport and utilities are disrupted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tokyo is no stranger to heat and other extreme weather, as well as being one of the world’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14323,9012,13303,8,52,4294],"class_list":["post-77583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tokyo","tag-climate","tag-disaster","tag-extreme-heat","tag-japan","tag-tokyo","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}