Abstract
The study, done in November, 2009, is to assess the situation of school preparedness for earthquake disaster in Shiga prefecture. Here we primarily focused on a school zone because the potential which school has for earthquake disaster is enormous and where the weak school students spend most of their time in large units. In addition, school is widely expected to be an immediate and long-time evacuation site for local residents when disaster strikes. Our research results found some facts that level of school preparedness today against earthquake disaster is subject to the difference of teaching systems of elementary school and junior high school, or that school’s awareness of disaster mitigation actually varies with position, gender, and field of school teacher. Therefore, it should be urgently and vitally important to develop an efficient system that can bridge these discrepancies first thing to function school preparedness for earthquake disaster well.
