Damage by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami.- Geological prerequisites for landslide dams\' disaster assessment and mitigation in Central Asia.- Social benefits of landslide prevention and mitigation in Hong Kong, China.- Advances of geo-disaster mitigation technologies in Taiwan.- The mechanisms for initiation and motion of Chinese loess landslides.- Geo-disaster and its mitigation in Nepal.- Hybrid socio-technical approach for landslide risk reduction in Indonesia.- Damage and recovery from the 1999 Chichi Earthquake in Taiwan.- Key factors influencing the mechanism of rapid and long runout landslides triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, China.- Strong ground motion prediction for scenario earthquakes.- Stability analysis of loess slopes based on reliability concepts.- Loess deposit and loess landslides on the Chinese loess plateau.