震災時の食料供給と小規模商店の役割

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This paper provides evidences of how the grocery stores react to the Tohoku Great Earthquake disaster. In August 2011, a survey was conducted to identify the behavior of the grocery stores during the earthquake disaster in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. They were asked about whether they suffered from the disaster or not, and how they provided foods to residences. Main findings of this study are the following: 1) although most of glocery stores suffered from earthquake, their response is quick and could provide food right after earthquake, 2) lack of gasoline and inaccesibility to the central market were main bottleneck for the glocery stores to open.