Realities of Village Relocation in after Sanriku Tsunami of 1933

“Old Site Return” and “Delayed Upland Move” - A Case Study of two Fishing Villages, Ara and Kosaba

Abstract

A case study on two villages of northern Miyagi Prefecture was carried out for village relocation in the period from Sanriku Tsunami of 1933 up to the Great East Japan Earthquake. As a result, the movement of the “old site return”, which has been a conventional dogma, was little. On the other hand it is revealed that movement with a time lag to said “delayed upland move” has been performed over a long period of time.