The purpose of this study is to clarify information collaborative activity between volunteer pharmacists and other medical staffs at evacuation shelters. This volunteer pharmacist's relief activities were conducted in conjunction with the Kurashiki Disaster Recovery Organization (KuraDRO). The activities were conducted in four evacuation facilities with less than 50 evacuees as well as one large evacuation facility with over 250 people. This report summarized the activities related to measures of medication guidance, disinfection, ventilation, and management of OTC medicines. If the number of evacuees accepted is approximately 50, a smooth support system with multiple occupations will be established. In addition, the use of LINE® was beneficial during such disasters.

In Japan, we have various disasters somewhere in a year. However, when residents actually experience a disaster in their residential areas, they often show paradoxical feeling like that such a disaster can’t have happened to themselves. To improve such a situation and make them notice their disaster risk realistically, the authors have been developing WEB-based training tool of disaster responses which serve opportunities for making a comparison between "prospective disaster response exercise" and "retrospective disaster response review." This tool can be platform for efficient use of results from various disaster simulations.

As a pre-survey, this study verified effects of this tool with similar movies on weather related disasters to the tool, and we had three trials for residents to consider their disaster responses. The results showed this tool can work efficiently for them to consider their disaster responses with feelings like real disaster cases and can be used to review and verify timings of residents’ responses.

In future study, we will develop methods of making training settings and familiarize this tool for preparation of various disasters through web service.

Disaster mitigation practices and researchs can create friction on the various values and meanings that make up life. For example, elderly persons refuse to participate in evacuation drills, saying, "If a disaster strikes, I'll die." If the view of life and death, the view of nature, publicness, religion, and “disaster mitigation” are not arbitrated, it will prevent realization of the disaster reduction in society and life. It is necessary to comprehend the relationship between disaster mitigation and society down to the dimensions of life and body. Therefore, this paper names the society that various technologies related to disaster mitigation are organically connected, and that develops by itself while influencing the lives and attitudes of people living there as "Disaster Mitigation System-Society", and draws its structure. First, this paper takes the Earthquake Early Warning as a good example of technology in the Disaster Mitigation System-Society and analyzes how organically connected technology networks permeate life and body. Next, we describe the general structure of the Disaster Mitigation System-Society and point out that the PDCA cycle of technology, body, behavior, and improvement continues without headguarters. Finally, as the direction of the development of the Disaster Mitigation System-Society, the paper presents the "information approach" that thoroughly evolves the Disaster Mitigation System-Society itself and the "life approach" that tries to harmonize various values by carefully reading the meaning in life.

In the event of a flood, it is not essential that residents who live in an area where flooding can be occur feel worried about whether or not they are subject to “Evacuation Information (EI).” It is impossible to expect the role of action guidance in the EI. The main point of “The Counterargument to Evacuation Information Supremacism (CAEIS)” is that it is better to rely on more raw information, namely, “Weather Information for Disaster Prevention (WIDP).”

On the other hand, what the CAEIS asks us is not merely a superficial debate on whether the EI should be abolished. The CAEIS argues that if the WIDP is sufficient, the need for the EI depends on a different issue than the need for evacuation of residents. The CAEIS argues that the need for the EI can vary widely depending on how the person perceives the relationship between residents and local governments in the society to which the person belongs. The CAEIS asks us whether we should aim for a humane society where there is a trusting relationship and a sense of unity between residents and local governments, or a heartless society in which people repeatedly pursues responsibility and avoids each other.

It would be an unexpected pleasure if the CAEIS could serve as an opportunity for a sincere discussion about whether the EI is really needed.

In this paper, we consider the consensus on the responsibility for disaster prevention. This paper refers to the viability of a society (middle-voice disaster prevention) that aims to be "a state in which disaster prevention is present as a result, regardless of the responsibility of disaster prevention", by contrasting the United States (active disaster prevention), which seeks to “do” by itself, and Japan (passive disaster prevention), which requires disaster prevention administration to “do.”

It may be hard to imagine a state of middle-voice disaster prevention for people who are obsessed with passive or active disaster prevention. Not only that, they may be concerned that it is merely blurring responsibility, that it is just affirming irresponsible behavior like moral-hazard and free-rider, or that it is just a praise of totalitarianism or collectivism. This paper refers to disaster management in Cuba and New Zealand as an opportunity to resolve those concerns. A questionnaire survey suggested that such concerns are unrelated in New Zealand where middle-voice disaster prevention is practiced, and are rather relevant in Japan.

The purpose of this study is to improve the ability of elderly welfare facilities to respond to disasters. One of the important businesses that the elderly welfare facilities must continue in the event of a disaster is the meal serving business. We investigated both the persons in charge of the facility meal serving business and the companies supporting the facilities. The survey results showed that about 80% of the facilities outsourced cooking work to external companies. The results of a survey in which food service companies dispatched staff to cook and also stocked food in facilities showed that cooperation with meal service companies is important for improving disaster prevention capabilities of facilities. The results of the survey of related private companies revealed the differences in the response policies between food service providers and food wholesalers. We proposed the measures such as ensuring the safety of dispatched staff and providing foodstuff from the government.

The current study aims to investigate the relationship between understanding to COVID-19 information and anxiety about infection. In addition, the current study explores the relationship between anxiety and media consumption as a means of understanding.

Data from two research projects each consisting of questionnaire responses from 4700 subjects (total 9400) were analyzed, and three key results were found.

Firstly, those who felt anxiety about infection had higher understanding than those who did not feel anxiety. Secondly, those who felt anxiety about infection spent more time consuming media, especially TV and the Internet through smartphones and mobiles, than those who did not feel anxiety. Finally, the extent of anxiety did not strongly relate to the participants' infection and aggravation risk. Therefore, at the stage of early March and April, it appears that anxiety about infection may have led some people to decrease their anxiety by obtaining more information about COVID-19.