Abstract
Local disaster management activities such as events are conducted in practice for attaining
participation from those at the age of maturity (from 18 years old to 40’s) for promoting
community-based disaster management, however, studies on this theme are limited. The aim
of this paper is to identify which activities attract what kind of people at the age of maturity.
Through a web-based questionnaire survey, it is found that local disaster trainings and the
events are highly preferred to. Moreover, those who have high factor scores for disaster
management behaviors and who conduct more kinds of disaster management behaviors prefer
the trainings, while the events fascinate the mediums, men and those with small kids. Finally,
the paper suggests that local disaster management events could be a step of those participants
toward facilitating disaster management.
