Prof. Hiroshi Fukuoka, Prof. Yutaka Gonda, students Dabycharun Bhoopendra and Hiroki Muto from Niigata University, Japan, visited Turkey in March 2018 as part of Global Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery Program of MEXT GLocalAge 2020 Exchange Program. Together with Dr. Huvaj and other colleagues, they carried out fieldwork in landslide sites in the city of Rize, and seminars and laboratory visits in Ankara. We are happy to collaborate and we thank MEXT GLocalAge program coordinated by Niigata University for the funding provided.