On October 23^rd and 24^th, 2015 a delegation of the National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM) of the Ministry on Land and Infrastructure of Japan, made by Dr. Fujimura and Dr. Uchida, visited two study sites of the Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI) of Padova located in South Tyrol (Northern Italy). On October 23^rd, the delegation, accompanied by IRPI researchers  Marco Cavalli and  Lorenzo Marchi, visited the debris-flow monitoring site in the Gadria creek. On October 24^th, the subject of the visit was the Ganderberg landslide where  Gianluca Marcato illustrated the monitoring activities carried out by CNR IRPI.