Preparation and Analysis of Data Base for Statistical Data of Damages Due to Natural Disaster Among to the Administrative Divisions of Japan

Abstract

In this paper, we collected the statistical data of damages due to natural disaster occurred in Japan during 26 years from 1970 to 1995 in order to prepare the data base for the statistical data of natural disaster among to the administrative divisions of Japan. This data base is very important to the future research programs for the development of the methodology of disaster prevention potential evaluation technique and analysis of effect due to the fittest investment for disaster prevention. As the types of natural disasters, we treated and summarized into five kinds of disasters, namely typhoon, heavy rain, earthquake, heavy snow and the other phenomena.We could almost complete the first-step of data base preparation and investigated a brief and basic analysis using the statistical data of damages due to natural disasters from this data base.