2008 Volume 10 Pages 553-563
There is not yet any management system for supporting "Life Recovery" of disaster victims in Japan. It is mainly because we have no scheme to develop the Victims' Master Database (VMDB) which records all the transactions between individual disaster victims and the local government where they register. As a consequence, it was difficult for local government to provide their services effectively and fairly. A management system for supporting victims' life recovery process was developed in Kashiwazaki City after Niigata Chuetsu-oki Earthquake in 2007. In this application, we created a new database, "VMDB", and realized so that a high quality local-government services for disaster victims was realized by recording their service transactions with individual victims continuously to VMDB.
