The objective of this paper is to statistically analyze whether or not, and the degree to which, the locations of households with elderly persons are different from those of all the households in terms of the distances to daily facilities such as medical institutions. First, we show that elderly single households live closer to facilities than all the households and elderly couple households live farther than all the households. Second, we demonstrate that whether or not households live close to facilities is related to whether they own their own house or live in a rented house. Third, we indicate that elderly single households put higher values on the accessibility to daily facilities in making decisions about where to live. Last, we conclude with suggestions for future study.

There was a great earthquake in Tottri-city called the Tottori earthquake in 1943. This paper clarified the condition of public and private temporary houses, and explained the housing reconstruction process and the support programs on this disaster. The housing reconstruction supporting programs on the Tottri earthquake disaster had some characteristics. To give sufferers temporary living places rapidly and effectively, the partially destroyed houses were mended prior to other supporting programs such as constructing public temporary houses. The private rented houses were rebuilt and the temporary houses were constructed on the private sites with public supports. These measures of housing recovery was effective against the insufficiency of building materials and labors in World War.

This study aims to establish method of evaluation of traditional commercial district revitalization through perception of early evaluations of authorized revitalization plan for traditional commercial district and suggestion of antedating cases. As antedating cases, we survey foreign revitalization plans, "Main Street Program" and "Town Center Management", and domestic system, "Town forming subsidy". As a result of drawing a parallel between evaluations of revitalization plans, those of foreign revitalization plan and those of town forming subsidy, we grasp that above basic plans needs detailed guideline of midterm and post facto evaluation and to clarify the purpose of evaluation.

Recovery process of the affected areas due to the 2004 Sumatra Tsunami entered the final stage of recovery aiming at permanent settlement. In Indonesia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka, the governments made urban recovery master plan for the catastrophically affected cities in which the existed previous city planning became unavailable. However, those process and organizations were often changed according to recovery stage, and there are some differences among them. This paper compares Urban Recovery Master Plan conducted by those countries from the viewpoints of official organization, changing of the coastal conservation zoning regulation.

The authors proposed a methodology to apply existed urban spatial archives such as historical old maps and aerial photographs to Google Earth for the digital recovery archives in a previous research. However, consideration of effective usage of the archive still remains. In order to discuss the possibilities, this paper demonstrates the urban transition of earthquake vulnerability risk in Marunouchi area from 1907 until 2000 from viewpoints of building collapse risk, fire spreading risk, and evacuation risk. The result indicates effective usability of using old maps as digital archives to understand the transition of the risk. Also, it shows future vision of the digital recovery archives.

Housing reconstruction projects are under process in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, it has past more than 3 years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. Foreign agencies such as JICA and USAID have been involved in the urban recovery project. There were some problems in the process of proceeding city planning and village plan for the small community level from the viewpoint of disaster management. The authors conducted a field survey in March 2008 to understand the recovery conditions, and interviewed the residents about livelihood condition at new resettlement sites. This paper demonstrates the process of the reconstruction and rehabilitation project managed by BRR, and reports the livelihood problems in the resettlement sites based on the interview with residents.