Meanwhile in Hyogo, Croatia lead Japan 2-1 after Ivo Karlovic and Ivan Dodig beat Tatsuma Ito and Yuichi Sugita 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

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In mid-1995, the then finance minister, Masayoshi Takemura, said, after the closure of Hyogo Bank, that no other big banks would go bust.

ECONOMIST: Japan��s financial crisis

The International Consortium on Landsides (ICL) has served as the thematic platform on landslides under the Hyogo Framework for Action: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters.

UNESCO: Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation

Liaise and collaborate with UN agencies, bilateral and multilateral development partners at regional and international levels, civil society organizations, the private sector and other stakeholders in order to promote coherence in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction and Education within the framework of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) and the Hyogo Framework for Action.

UNESCO: Vacancy : Programme Specialist (20/6/2011) (ED 005 - (P5))