Significance and Effectiveness based on Evidence of Empirical Research "Disaster Storytelling"

Abstract

This paper introduces an example in which the author has empirically verified the significance and effectiveness of "Disaster Storytelling". First, the significance was qualitatively verified based on the case of inheriting the disaster response experience of Miyagi Prefectural Government staffs before the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake disaster. Second, experimental study have demonstrated changes in physiological, psychological, and memory levels that affect listeners who are told by the disaster storyteller. Finally, a social implementation of inheritance by Miyagi Prefectural Government office after the Great East Japan Earthquake, which is practiced based on these evidences, is shown.