2023 Volume 21 Issue 2 Pages 147-156
This paper focuses on private organizations (NPOs/ NGOs,etc.) that are engaged in day-to-day activities focused on disaster mitigation and clarifies how international collaboration takes place amongst these institutions. In particular, I will summarize insights gained from interactions with several NPOs, NGOs, as well as key persons in each country who were available for interviews, focusing on East Asia (Japan, China, and South Korea), where inter-state collaboration is particularly active. The case study examined in this paper looks at cooperation regarding the "construction of a disaster-related museum" between Japan and China. As a result, it became clear that paths (requests for cooperation) from the first to the fourth stage were created. Specifically, there are pathways directed to large bodies such as international organizations and universities, those directed to key persons, approaches directed to national private organizations and companies in other countries, and paths directed to local private organizations. In addition, it was found that contact with key persons is crucial to make connections during the process of path formations. In the cases where a path could not be connected, the factors that prevented it (or made it difficult to receive) included problems due to trust issues among private sector organizations and because these issues did not fall within the scope of support defined by the international organization. It became clear that the private sector had to take risks to promote collaboration. In order to improve these issues, it was recommended to develop tools to create connections using IoT and to establish a national platform to discuss risk managements through needed collaboration among private organizations.
