MIT Japan Design Workshop 2012The MIT Japan 3. 11 Initiative is MITs response to the March 2011 triple disaster in Japan. The Initiative, established by the MIT Japan Program at the Center for International Studies, provides a mechanism for faculty and student exchange between MIT and universities in the Tohoku region for the study and implementation of disaster resilient planning, design, and reconstruction. In the Summer 2012 Workshop of four weeks, the first half was spent in