Abstract
After the Higashi Nippon earthquake, a reconstruction plan and its road map were formed and implemented. However, many communities are in crisis until today because of the unprecedented huge damage by the tsunami disaster. Residents in temporary houses faced to a lot of problems. Most basic community units of neighbors had been stopped in some areas. People moving to other areas are increasing and populations in disaster areas are decreasing.
This paper presents a communication based approach for promoting the community reconstruction. It includes the process such as observation, communication, face to face survey, setting up a place for communication, picking up words from the residents, searching and setting a target, making a plan for mutual understanding of the problems predicted after taking actions and the adaptive management with communication for next steps. A case study in Taro district, Japan, are described and discussed.
