I would like to comment on the Hashimoto (2022) opinion article published in a recent issue of SRL on Nankai’s long‐term earthquake probabilities from the disciplinary perspective of disaster management and social science rather than seismology. My comments are not so much a disagreement with Hashimoto’s view that the long‐term probabilities for the Nankai trough may be inflated but instead to provide a somewhat contrasting perspective on why this region should continue to be an area of concern and focused planning, preparedness, and hazard mitigation. We recently commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, a...

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