Abstract
The reconstruction of the Great East Japan Earthquake emphasized the importance of considering the characteristics of each region. A comprehensive and diachronic understanding and description of the regional characteristics that emerged during the reconstruction process will provide important insights for future discussions on reconstruction projects, but there is a need for more efficient and effective methodologies for survey and analysis in this complex situation. In this study, we focused on the Local Government Newsletters that the local governments, which are the main actors of reconstruction, have continuously sent out information about the region during the reconstruction process, and attempted to read the characteristics of the region that appeared during the reconstruction process by analyzing the contents of the articles over time. As a result of this study, the characteristics of the composition and contents of the Local Government Newsletters of the six municipalities affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake were grasped, and some of the characteristics of the regions that appeared in the reconstruction process were clarified through text analysis of the articles on “local events” that had been continuously sending out information close to the residents before the earthquake.
