Disaster Risk Reduction Education Spanning the Pacific Ocean: Exchange Among Mexican and Japanese Junior High School Students

Junior high school students in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, have initiated activities for preparing against earthquake/tsunami disasters. The catalyst for the students carrying out evacuation drills and producing disaster prevention maps was online exchange with junior high school students in Japan on the topic of disaster preparedness. This ACTION! VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY video summarizes scenes of exchange between the Mexican and Japanese students, together with the Mexican students’ proactive disaster preparedness activities from the perspectives of Japanese researchers.