2018 Volume 33 Pages 105-114
The interview survey was conducted to responders who belonged Miyagi Prefecture government in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster in order to clarify the tradition process of experience of responses in past disasters and its application reality. The results are summarized as follows. 1)Civil engineering department and financial affairs section absorbed and utilized past experiences in mainly the 1978 Miyagi-oki Earthquake disaster and others. 2)It wad difficult to use knowlege and past experiences in other departments and sections because of difference affiliation, class of positions, business tools and survivor support systems between past disaster and the 2011 disaster. 3)Past experiences including know-how cannot be directly utilized in the later disaster, but the attitude toward disaster as the tacit knowledge which acquired in the actual experience was helpful in the 2011 disaster. Finally, we proposed a tradition system of disaster experience for effective response in local government which responded.
