Journal of Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science
Online ISSN : 2434-1037
Print ISSN : 0286-6021
What do slogans for revitalization represent? - A case study of disaster revitalization plans for the Great East Japan Earthquake -
Hideyuki KOBAYASHI
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2017 Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 179-196

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This research aims to reveal purposes of disaster revitalization plan as slogans. City offices often draw up their disaster revitalization plan after disaster. Some slogans which represent purposes of disaster revitalization are written by city offices in that plan. The author analyzed eighty one city offices ‚ disaster revitalization plan from the Great East Japan Earthquake through text analysis. All plans expressed “concept” and “purpose” in short term as slogans. The results show that slogans represent seven main purposes as below‚ “safe and peaceful society” “disaster prevention” “ back to normal life” “ social inclusion” “build back better” “the world’s most advanced Tsunami prevention model”.
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