History of Disaster Reconstruction: Forecasting Post-modern Society

Abstract

Disaster reconstruction is a phenomenon strongly regulated by the society in which it occurred. Therefore, comparative analysis of disaster reconstruction from ancient times to the present and in various areas makes it possible to distinguish the characteristics of the society and the era in which the disaster occurred. In particular, the subject is the reconstruction after the Showa Sanriku tsunami. In this paper, the characteristics of "modern reconstruction" in Japan is introduced and a plan is drawn for the construction of disaster reconstruction history in Japan and the world.