Abstract
This paper investigates determinants for municipalities on accepting disaster wastes generated from the Great East Japan Earthquake, by using media coverage as reference and econometric analysis. Empirical results show that municipalities with higher amount of donations to the victims of disaster or higher number of volunteers are more positive about accepting of the disaster waste. In addition, it became clear that municipalities located further from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant or the municipalities with higher populations of agricultural worker are more negative toward accepting of the disaster the waste. These results suggest that there is an anxiety about the risk of radiation that prevents municipalities from accepting disaster waste from affected areas.
