Abstract
An extremely severe earthquake and tsunami struck the Tohoku district on March 11, 2011 and it caused very serious damage to Japan. In order to propose appropriate evacuation behavior in the event of disaster, it is necessary to clarify how the resident evacuated in the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and what the direct and indirect factors of evacuation behavior were. Firstly, this paper collected several newspaper articles regarding tsunami caused by earthquake disasters and consider the individual decision and impeditive factors. From the perspective of individual decision, this paper showed the importance to have intuition by themselves as soon as possible whenever the earthquake happens. For this decision, the knowledge and experience would useful. In addition, it is necessary to be processed into information according to regional circumstances by receiving the common information, and convey for residents. Also schemes based on regions are necessary for support help-needed person. From the perspective of impeditive factors, those factors are divided into human error, infrastructure and society. It considered about psychological characteristics, especially focusing on human error. As the results, people would behave as usual despite the event of disaster and the relations between individual are important. Finally, this paper showed that individual decisions affect the others and whole regions.
