Ther purpose of our study is to examine the availability of air-raid victim’s narratives to resilience education. First, we investigated resilience factor which is the ability to bounce back from adversity by using the victim’s narratives of air raid on 9 local cities in the Kanto region of Japan during World War II. The main results from the analysis on the narratives indicates that the reasons to bounce back from the adversity (sudden loss of life and/or property) are classified into five categories, “sense of purpose”, “empathy”, “inheritance of will”, “sense of well-being and security”, and “self-efficacy”. Next, we asked university and high-school students for feedback as to air-raid narratives. The results suggested that the air-raid narratives are available as reading material for resilience education.

In this study, I focus on the city planning system considering disaster risk in Brazil and reveal its system through the Constitution and Federal Law of Brazil. My aim is to obtain useful informations that it's necessary to discuss the way of future city planning system in countries with disaster risk. Results shows the following: 1)the Brazilian legal system aims to realize disaster risk management type land use considering housing measures for low-income people by considering these points that (1) how sustainable citizen life and industrial activities etc. should be advanced in the future, (2) response to disorderly housing construction due to illegal occupation etc. in areas with disaster risk; 2)the advanced municipal government made a draft revision of the master plan for city planning considering disaster risk.

During the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, medical team's responses in Iwate Prefecture Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters had many difficulties, especially during first nine days. In this paper we proposed to objectively reveal problems of response activities at the viewpoint of information processing by After Action Review focusing on the activity logs in the time series (chronologies). By using Emergency Support Function (ESF) as a framework of our analysis, we clarified the gap between the task that should be performed and actual conditions in the operation of Japan DMAT from hyperacute phase to subacute phase of medial responses.

Recovery from devastating damage by natural disaster requires community reconstruction, while it is not enough to be paid attention to disappear local culture of those days. This paper is series of the process to develop of metholodogy for construction of pre-disaster recovery planning, and it aims a proposal of new workshop style for extracting spatial community memories with 1/2000 and 1/1000 spatial models case from Ena, Wakayama. The trial for collected local memories before disasters strike contributes to shape an aggregation of individual memories as a core of local context for a potential of community recovery. Five major categories are identified as key components in Ena through the participatory workshop.

This report aims at clarifying the progress made in housing reconstruction and problems related to livelihood recovery for tsunami victims four years after the Great East Japan earthquake. The authors conducted a questionnaire survey with residents who lived in tsunami inundated areas in Ofunato City, Kesen-numa City, and Shinchi Town in February 2015. The results of quantitative and qualitative analyses show the following. First, the number of victims' self-reliant houses have continued to increase gradually at a constant and moderate pace since the disaster. Second, residents in temporary housing, both the privately rented type and the prefabricated type, have not yet recovered in terms of various factors related to life insecurity. Last, even those who repaired their own homes and residents in temporary houses share common economic concerns for the future.

Defining a risk sense as a sense of taking an attitude toward and selecting a behavior responding to disaster risks, we have conducted measurement of personal risk senses of community people by two kinds of questionnaire surveys with 120 questions. Taking the results of such questionnaire into account as 11 barometers, “Personal Disaster Measure Card” has been developed for aiming at stimulating a person’s social comparison and meta-cognition with regard to risk perception, disaster consciousness and disaster behavior, and hopefully realizing attitude and behavior changes. As the result of three-year activity in two communities in Ainan Town, Ehime Prefecture, our aims was successfully confirmed through statistical testing and interview to participating residents.

After Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, some of local authorities hosting U.S. Force Japan(USFJ) started to build a cooperation with USFJ for disaster relief. The Great East Japan Earthquake accelerated and expanded these relationships. With examination of questionair investigation to local authorities, this study tried to draw landscapeand question of the cooperation between local authority and USFJ and examin forsight for solving the question and incleasign the cooperation.

This paper presents a study on effectiveness of rapid safety assessment of buildings after the foreshock of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake using aerial photographs. The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes are a series of earthquakes, including a Mw7.0 mainshock and a Mw6.2 foreshock earthquake. Since these two earthquakes occurred within 28 hours, the rapid safety assessment could not been carried out after foreshock. In this study, utilizing aerial photographs, the building damage situation after the foreshock is estimated as accurate as possible. Based on the estimated damage situation, the rapid safety assessment is carried out and the effectiveness of the assessment is evaluated.

Municipal employees behave referring to an incident response manual in disaster management. Therefore, they may irresolute in an occasion not written in the manual. In this case, they rely on past experiences and documents of incident responses. However these experiences and documents are not described in a way to use effectively. This study proposes “a schematic incident response story” which is the way to describe schematize episodic knowledge in disaster management based on an analysis of a thinking process of commanders. From a questionnaire, it shows that a schematic incident response story serves as a useful reference, and helps to understand the basis of a past or another person’s incident response. It is also expected to support predictive inference of the scenario in the future by presenting the schema.

According to the revised Disaster Countermeasure Basic Act of 2013, it imposes an obligation on the local government to make a list of people requiring disaster evacuation assistance.The objectives of this study was clarified the maintenance, management, and sharing methods of the list among all local government. Those methods were diverse, depending on the interpretation of the Act and operation standards. Besides public agencies, the prepared list was mostly shared with local welfare commissioners, followed by residents’ associations. Although the information from the list should be ideally utilized during the non-disaster period, there are issues concerning the understanding of aspects of the information and a lack of regional manpower.

Land use management considering disaster risks is becoming more essential under depopulating society in Japan. The Shiga Integrated Flood Management Ordinance enacted on March 31, 2014 stipulated the obligation that realestate agencies should make efforts to give their customers appropriate flood risk information prior to a real estate transaction. In this study, questionnaire surveys for real estate agencies in Shiga Prefecture were conducted for understanding current status of the agencies’ compliance with the audinance. It revealed that about 70% of all the real estate agencies provide flood risk information and presented several issues to enhance more risk communication.