Study on tsunami disaster culture handed down from generation to generation in the coastal regions

Abstract

In high risk regions against natural hazard, there are disaster cultures that are knacks to reduce damages from disaster. This study revealed the actual situation of tsunami disaster culture in the coastal region to take the relation between parents and their children into consideration. As the results, the occasions that parents havetold about tsunami to their children have decreased, and children have not known how to evacuate from tsunami. In addition, we have proposed to carry out disaster education at school as the method for rooting the disaster culture in coastal regions.