2022 Volume 21 Issue 3 Pages 308-311
Italy and Japan, both are constantly facing natural disasters, are each implementing reconstruction after the recent large-scale earthquakes. This paper focuses on the recovery of economic activities, especially the operation of relocation to the temporary malls, and aims to find proper vision through comparative analysis of legal system and the issues from the cases of 2016 Central Italy Earthquake and 2011 Great East Earthquake in Japan. By the analysis, it was found that although the operation and location were restricted strongly by the municipality, shortage of stores and facilities impede the practical recovery of economic activities smoothly in the case of Italy. In the case of Japan, the prioritized strategies on economic recovery promoted rapid restarts of activities at temporary malls, however, it was found that the necessity of the mental health care in the case if victims need to relocate with long distance. Through both experiences, it is pointed out that the importance of operation of temporally malls with careful consideration for the well-being of disaster victims.
