Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine the policy process of recovery plan and reconstruction policy from Higashi-Nihon Great Earthquake.
I would like to point out that there are four opinions against the recovery plans and reconstruction policies from public choice view.
1)Time schedule of recovery plan and reconstruction policy. These are not clearly separation. It is necessary to implementation the recovery plans and reconstruction policies at the same time.
2)Scope of reconstruction policies. It is essential to distinguish the policy issues of before the earthquake disaster and the policy issues of after the earthquake disaster.
3)Relationship to rent and earthquake diseases. Earthquake diseases may cause rent seeking activity.
4)The role of Government and Market. It is not necessarily a role of the government to implement the recovery plan and the reconstruction policy. Market oriented policies are sometimes effective. For example, rent subsidy program intended to private rental house is effective to supply a permanent house than building it by local government.
