2015 Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 106-111
This paper focuses on information gathering by foreign residents after the Great East Japan Earthquake in Icho Apartment, which has the high percentage of foreign residents. This paper aims to identify how sufficient foreign residents could gather information after the earthquake and their information sources and factors affecting the sufficiency of information gathering. Based on analysis of questionnaire survey, it is revealed most of the foreign residents could gather information sufficiently, and their major information source is TV/radio program in Japanese. Additionally, information provided by a neighborhood council and local NPO in multiple foreign languages was utilized to some extent, especially information about a planned power outage. The ability to speak and read Japanese and attendance of local NPO are found to be factors affecting information gathering.
