The National Diet Library of Japan started the project of building the Archives of the Great East Japan Earthquake to promote universal access to the records and the lessons of the disaster. In this presentation, I would like to introduce details of the activities of the project such as collecting the records of the disaster and developing the archive system.

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　In the wake of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake hitting the nation on March 11, 2011, NHK has kept on producing and telecasting programs, produced on different themes or from varied standpoints. Programs include documentary or otherwise, starting out with ad hoc reportage, and later delving into mechanisms of earthquakes and tsunami in scientific details, or analyzing people's behavioral psychology at times of earthquake disasters, or pursuing the current status of debris and waste disposal and reconstruction tasks, or featuring musical entertainment programs for local reconstruction. Meanwhile, NHK has also been engaged as a broadcasting station in covering the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake on the Internet. In this broadband age when milliards of people acquire information through moving image contents on the Internet, providing Internet contents, besides broadcasting, has become critically important for any broadcasting station. Here, I relate how I have been working in reporting the disaster through the Internet on the theme of "Digital Archives of the East Japan Earthquake and disaster" where I serve as the executive editor.

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　This article discuss two points of disaster archives. One is current situation of disaster archives and another is problem of them, especially, after 3.11 great earthquake and Tsunami.

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This article explains a method of oral history and introduces 3 oral history projects which the author conducted. Based on the 3 cases of oral history projects it is emphasized that the time distance between the fact and the interview and the psychological distance between the interviewer and the interviewee should be considered . And finally the possibility of oral history of the disaster in 2011 is discussed.

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　The Library of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has developed the special website on Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station accident from April 4, 2011. This website is provided both in Japanese and English. It disseminates over 15,000 bibliographic and full-text records, such as JAEA's research results, academic journal articles, conference papers, technical reports etc.
　In this paper, the authors introduce the special website on Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station accident and discuss some challenging issues to develop archive.

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　The 2011 Tohoku earthquake unfortunately revealed that we had learned little about disaster preparedness from the 2004 Sumatra tsunami. This fact naturally makes us wonder about many questions. How can we make the most of disaster records to prepare for future disasters? Still today, many disaster victims are suffering from the devastation in and outside their home towns. Can disaster records really record what they think, feel and experience about the disaster? What can we do to be better prepared for gigantic disasters and to work better with disaster victims? There are no easy answers, but some hints to solve these questions can be found by examining the disaster-related efforts in Aceh, Indonesia a country that experienced a gigantic disaster years before Japan. This paper discusses Aceh's seven-year effort in disaster management particularly through disaster education.

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