It is important to quickly recover the function of infrastructure in order to realize early rehabilitation after the earthquake. For that purpose, it is necessary for local governments and local construction companies in the disaster-stricken area to cooperate to make the best use of limited resources. Since the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake caused delays in staff gathering and the unavailability of some administrative office buildings, problems in many operations happed. Therefore, we surveyed the response of the administrators of the construction department and the workers of the local construction companies during the emergency restoration period in the area affected by the Kumamoto earthquake. After that, we organized the issues for maximizing the disaster response capability of the disaster-stricken area, and proposed specific measures to solve them.

 Eight years have passed since the efforts to strengthen the national land began. National resilience is indispensable to provide an environment where residents can live with peace of mind in the face of large-scale natural disasters that occur frequently these days. In this study, in order to investigate the degree of awareness and understanding of the residents regarding the national resilience policy, the following items are confirmed by questionnaire. 1) Degree of recognition of terms related to national resilience, 2) Scenarios for national resilience measures, 3) Requests for national resilience. Then, the results of the awareness survey and its consideration are shown for the purpose of using it as basic data for connecting to measures to improve vulnerabilities.