2008 Volume 48 Issue 1-2 Pages 155-175
The authors performed the questionnaire to the fishermen and their connections in Wajima city, Ishikawa, Japan where was attacked by The Noto Hanto Earthquake in 2007, to understand the relationships between their evacuation behavior from the tsunami and their experiences and knowledge of the earthquake. The following two results were shown. The first, the ratio of fishermen who was able to be associated the earthquake with the Tsunami, and evacuated to the refuge was higher than those of the ordinary people, because the fishermen are rich in experiences and knowledge of the sea. This result indicates that the fishermen have the possibility to be the protagonist to enhance the regional potential of disaster reduction. On the other hand, the second, the many of fisherman has wrong “commonsense” means “the Tsunami comes after the ebb”. This shows that the adequate education for disaster mitigation is quite necessary even for the seasoned people.
