Journal of Welfare Sociology
Online ISSN : 2186-6562
Print ISSN : 1349-3337
Special Issues: Problems from the Tohoku Region Pacific Coast Earthquake
Disaster, Disability, & Disability Movement
Shinya TATEIWA
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2012 Volume 9 Pages 81-97

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First, I present what we, researchers, can do, and how much we have and have not done for logistic support of the disaster area of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Second, I suggest that people with disabilities or illnesses need to secure what is necessary to live, have preparation and wisdom available for use, share knowledge that should be shared, take measures that can be taken, and then introduce some activities concerning them. Moreover, I present the possibility and fact that under the Personal Information Protection Law, people who are missing are transferred without being known and left there; we need to strongly complain about the unconscionability of this, and in fact, invocations against this practice have been made. Furthermore, there appears to be a movement wherein people run away from nuclear power and try to secure new living places. Finally, I present that these activities have been supported by the success and development of this 40-year movement of disabled people, and the ones after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake reconfirm its significance ..
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