The Sri Lankan Minister of Disaster Management Anura Priyadarshana Yapa paid a visit to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) as part of a delegation including Department of Meteorology (DOM) Director-General Lalith Chandrapala on 10 May as part of a stay in Japan hosted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
The delegation met a JMA management group led by the Agency's Director-General Dr. Toshihiko Hashida and discussed future collaboration between the DOM and JMA on disaster prevention and mitigation.
The visitors were given a tour of the JMA operational centers used for monitoring, forecasting and warning services relating to meteorological, oceanographic, climatological, seismological and volcanic activity.
Mr. Yapa also visited a Doppler weather radar station at Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) and viewed JMA's new-generation radar system, which became operational in this March 2016.
