Mr. Aneha structural engineer who camouflaged the earthquake-resistant computation of many buildings should be punished, because he acted against the Building Standards Act of Japan. However, he let the people recognize the importance of earthquake resistant properties of buildings, rather than the other ones, for example, appearance, accessibility, amenity of living.

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In order to improve the regional response ability to the earthquake and to mitigate the amount of damage, the simulator system to promote seismic retrofitting is developed. The system intends to make people aware the importance of preparedness for the coming destructive earthquakes and to learn the reason why damage occur and people die during earthquakes. The system guides people to retrofit their house and to fix furniture in their house. The system is composed of web-based geographic information system combined with various simulators such as seismic ground motion, building collapse and furniture toppling over, the shaking table tests images of building and furniture, the e-learning system, the knowledge base system using Wiki and the artificial intelligence CAIWA system and WebLog system.

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To reduce earthquake damage in the future, it is very important for each of us to take voluntary countermeasures. After the 1995 Kobe Earthquake, it was clear that the main countermeasures to prevent future disaster were to retrofit low earthquake prevent structures and to fix furniture. However, these measures have not been properly implemented mainly because many people can not imagine a disaster situation. In this study, we try to improve the people's capacity to imagine disasters so that they implement specific disaster countermeasures. At first, we analyze the effect of furniture overturning prevention devices and evaluate its efficiency by shaking table tests. Then, we try to promote people's risk awareness by showing animations of dynamic behavior of furniture in their own living spaces when earthquake occurs. Finally, we promote people's recognition of disaster countermeasures by discussing the furniture overturning ratio decline when overturning prevention devices are installed.

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