2013 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 042-053
This study quantitatively analyzes flow of emergency goods supplied by national and prefectural governments at the Great East Japan Earthquake on the 11th of March, 2011. Historically, flow of emergency goods has not been well retained because the flow is ephemeral. Therefore, just after the earthquake, shipping records mostly handwritten were collected at the Iwate and Miyagi prefectural offices and digitized so as to analyze efficiently. Focusing on one month period after the earthquake, trends of goods supply are analyzed in relation to the demand at disaster sites and contrasting logistics schemes in each prefecture is revealed.
