2018 年 32 巻 p. 39-49
This report aims at clarifying the progress made in housing reconstruction and problems related to livelihood recovery for tsunami victims four years after the Great East Japan earthquake. The authors conducted a questionnaire survey with residents who lived in tsunami inundated areas in Ofunato City, Kesen-numa City, and Shinchi Town in February 2015. The results of quantitative and qualitative analyses show the following. First, the number of victims' self-reliant houses have continued to increase gradually at a constant and moderate pace since the disaster. Second, residents in temporary housing, both the privately rented type and the prefabricated type, have not yet recovered in terms of various factors related to life insecurity. Last, even those who repaired their own homes and residents in temporary houses share common economic concerns for the future.