The National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (Japanese: 防災科学技術研究所, romanized: Bōsai Kagaku Gijutsu Kenkyū-sho), also known as NIED, is a National Research and Development Agency[1] that conducts research on science and technology related to disaster risk reduction.

[3][4] The headquarters is located in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture.

[5] The history can be broken into phases:[6] 1960s - 1970s 1990s - 2000s 2010s - 2020s NIED established and has been the secretariat of the Japan Hub of Disaster Resilience Partners (JHoP), a research network of 17 national universities, research institutes and other disaster management organizations in Japan since 2019.

[30] In 2021, JHoP established ICoE-Coherence (International Center of Excellence for Coherence among Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation, and Sustainable Development) to promote international research on disaster risk reduction and management under the framework of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), which is supported by the International Science Council (ISC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).

[31] NIED also conducts various international activities[32] in disaster science employing knowledge and experience from Japan such as: