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University-wide Simultaneous Class Cancellation Associated With Incidents Such as Issuance of Weather Warnings, or Suspended Service of Public Transport

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Handling of classes in case of announcement of weather warnings, suspension of public transportation or accidents/incidents(Abstract)

1. The simultaneous cancellation of classes without judgements of the executive (Education/Higashi-Senda Campus)(hereinafter referred to as "executive")
When emergency warnings are issued from Hiroshima local meteorological observatory toward Hiroshima City or Higashi Hiroshima City, all classes in campuses in those areas shall be cancelled. When only emergency warnings against surge or high tide are issued in Higashi Hiroshima, simultaneous cancellation shall not be conducted.

2. Simultaneous cancellation of classes with judgements of the executive
When following cases happen, all classes at the campus on the day shall be cancelled if the executive judges that it is difficult to hold classes at each campus. When all classes at Kaumi campus (Higashi Senda campus) are cancelled because of the following (1) to (3) conditions, all classes at Higashi Senda campus (Kasumi campus) shall be cancelled also.
The guidance of the range of class periods and decision time of simultaneous cancellation of classes are as showed in Ch.3.

(1) when any warnings of heavy rainfall, floods, heavy snowfall, storm or blizzard is issued toward Hiroshima City or Higashi Hiroshima City by Hiroshima local meteorological observatory.
(2) when any warnings of heavy rainfall, floods, heavy snowfall, storm or blizzard is previously expected to be issued toward Hiroshima City or Higashi Hiroshima City because of the Typhoon approaching
(3) when public transportation including JR Sanyo-line cancel the services because of accidents, heavy rainfall and other natural disasters or strikes
(4) when it becomes difficult for students or staff to commute to the university
(5) when because of other incidents or accidents entering the university is forbidden.

3. The guidance of the range of class periods and decision time of simultaneous cancellation of classes

Range of class periods	Decision time
Classes starting from 8:45 to 12:10	By around 06:45
Classes starting from 12:50 to 17:05	By around 10:50
Classes starting from 17:30 to 19:40	By around 16:00

※　The judgment of first period of class is held by around 6:45, and there is possibility that according to the situation, as above, university-wide simultaneous class cancellation will be released. Please check information about it until before classes begin.

【Contact 　（On the occasions such as cancellations of university-wide simultaneous class cancellation or the classes resuming because of services' reopening of transportation）】

Information will be posted on the emergency column (Top right of the page )of 「Momiji Top(http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/momiji/）.
Otherwise, information could also be checked at the Official Twitter and Official Facebook.
In addition, if you can not access all above, please contact Student Support Group of the faculty or graduate school which you belong to, directly.（Emergency enquiry list: reference）
Moreover, it will be published when the university executes the class by releasing of warning not longer being effective and/or restarting transportation operations by the above-mentioned method. So, please confirm before acting.

※ The above-mentioned publishing is not published about the class (supplementary lecture and immersion lecture, etc.) executed in the holidays, so please inquire at the Student Support Office (As for the liberal arts education, inquire at the Education Promotion Group(Liberal Arts Education)) in the faculty and the graduate school that you belong to.

※The inquiry time for " Emergency Inquiries" is from 8:30AM-5:15PM (The Higashi-Senda district Student Support Group is 9:15PM) except on holidays. In addition, when emergency contact for emergency inquires cannot be made based on the guidelines mentioned above, please put your personal safety first.

＜Emergency Contact List＞

Students Support Office of The Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences（The Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences）	(082)424-6315, 6316 (faculty) (082)424-6318 (graduate school)
Students Support Office of Faculty of Letters(The Graduate School of Letters)	(082)424-6613 (faculty) (082)-424-6615 (graduate)
Student Support Office of Graduate School of Education / Faculty of Education	(082)424-6715, 6725 (faculty) (082)424-6719 (graduate school)
Student Support Office of Faculty of Law (The Graduate School of Social Sciences)	(082)424-7215 (faculty) (082)424-7148 (graduate school)
Student Support Office of Faculty of Economics(The Graduate School of Social Sciences)	(082)424-7217 (faculty) (082)424-7189 (graduate school)
Student Support Office of Higashi Senda Campus	(082)542-6998 (Night course of Faculty of Law) (082)542-6961 (Night course of Faculty of Economics) (082)542-6962 (Department of management , The Graduate School of Social Sciences) (082)542-7087 (The Hiroshima University Law School)
Student Support Office of Faculty of Science（The Graduate School of Science）	(082)424-7315, 7316 (faculty) (082)424-7317, 7318 (graduate school)
Student Support Office of The Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences	(082)257-5049,5050 (Faculty of Medicine) (082)257-5613,5614 (Faculty of Dentistry） (082)257-5777 (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences) (082)257-5051 (graduate school)
Student Support Office of Faculty of Engineering（The Graduate School of Engineering）	(082)424-7524 (faculty) (082)424-7519 (graduate school)
Student Support Office of Faculty of Applied Biological Science（The Graduate School of Biosphere Science）	(082)424-7915 (faculty) (082)424-7908 (graduate school)
Student Support Office of The Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter	(082)424-7008, 7009
Student Support Office of The Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation	(082)424-6909, 6910
Education Promotion Group(Liberal arts)	(082)424-6139
Education Promotion Group(Undergraduate education or Graduate education)	(082)424-6156,6158

In the case that if you can not get connected with the university, please take actions according to the weather information.

Reference：
Handling of classes in case of announcement of weather warnings, suspension of public transportation or accidents/incidents (Whole text)

Japan Meteorological Agency, Warnings /Advisories（http://www.jma.go.jp/en/warn/index.html）

Japan Meteorological Agency, Page of Typhoon Information（http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/）