The Study on Expanding of Temporary Shops and Arising of the Problems about Shopping Refugees in Rikuzentakata City

Studies by the Study Group on Recovery of the Areas Affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Abstract

This study aim to explain the processes of the expanding of temporary shops and examine the problems about shopping refugees. Rikuzentakata city had damaged deeply by big tsunami of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. After the earthquake, the temporary hoses and shops have been constructed to serve many people lose their own house. In this situation, there are many shopping refugees, because the distance between temporary houses and shops tends to be longer than that of before the earthquake. This study has interviews to that people to make plan to solve the problems.