Part One

The first part covers precious lessons obtained from recent actual tsunami disasters including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, fundamental knowledge of tsunami for our survival, and concludes the lessons learnt and listing measures for tsunami disaster mitigation for saving human lives.

Part Two

The second part presents tsunami from an academic perspective in two chapters: one describes tsunami occurrence mechanism and near-shore behavior; the other mentions numerical simulation and forecasting of tsunami.