Reconstruction Progress Situation of the Third Year from the Great East Japan Earthquake by Victims’ Questionnaire Survey

- Focusing on Sense of Stagnation in Disaster Reconstruction and Ambivalence in Housing Reconstruction -

Abstract

We conducted a questionnaire survey of disaster victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster. We clarified victims’ third-year situation and problems for disaster reconstruction. The questionnaire consists of four large elements; victims’ situation during three years, feeling at the third year of disaster, decision about place of residence and reconstruction progress situation of affected area. We found that 1)around 80% of the respondent answered that "The speed of reconstruction is slower than their assumptions" or "I do not have a feeling that reconstruction is actually proceeding". The result is the statistically same as the result of the previous-year survey, 2)13.2% of the respondent did not determine the residence in the future. They have the dilemma of two options whether to leave the familiar region, to obtain the convenience of life or to remain in the region, to keep their ancestral land and the grave.