New initiatives are being taken by the local industries of every coastal community severely affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. This study clarified a recovery process of the local industries in a fishing village of Shichigahama, near Sendai City. In this process, a creation of a local industry system which may increase the value of local fishery products are established by several actors including town municipality, chamber of commerce, fisheries cooperative, and interested volunteers. The author found some latent problems in the newly created local system and the interrelationships among some actors.

　This paper examines the role of temporary and permanent commercial facilities in the recovery of commercial functions after the Great East Japan Earthquake.　The purpose of this study is to clarify the relationship between the temporary commercial facilities and the permanent commercial facilities and the evaluation of each facility by the users of the permanent commercial facilities.　The research method is to interview each facility and the users who visit the facility.　Aeon Town, a large-scale store, opened in Kamaishi City, and Sea Palpia Onagawa opened in Onagawa Town, Miyagi Prefecture.　In Onagawa Town, some private business owners have moved to the permanent commercial facility after managing the temporary commercial facility.　The users of AEON TOWN Kamaishi in Kamaishi City are people from neighboring cities and towns in Iwate Prefecture.　On weekends and holidays, the range is wider than on weekdays.　Sea Palpia Onagawa in Onagawa Town, Miyagi Prefecture, attracts visitors from outside the prefecture.　Although the user evaluations were high, it became clear that the users of Sea Palpia Onagawa knew very little about the Again Onagawa brand.

　The purpose of this paper is to clarify the “complementary relationship” between the Shinkansen and expressways at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake, and to examine the trends of the restored Shinkansen and expressways during the recovery period.　In the Great East Japan Earthquake, a very large area was affected compared to the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the Chuetsu Earthquake.　Although the Tohoku Shinkansen was restored quickly for the scale of the disaster, it took 49 days to resume full operation and six months to restore the normal schedule.　On the other hand, immediately after the earthquake, the expressway played a role as a “road of life” and the north-south axis was restored one day after the disaster by the “tooth of the comb” strategy.　For about a week after the earthquake, the highway buses and airplanes collaborated with each other to replace the Shinkansen.　In the reconstruction period, the number of passengers on the Tohoku Shinkansen increased.　In addition, the construction of expressways was accelerated nationwide after the earthquake.　The Shinkansen and expressways in the affected areas were regarded as “symbols of reconstruction”.　However, the detailed process of how the Shinkansen and expressways contributed to the reconstruction of the disaster area needs to be studied in the future.

　Ten years after the Great East Japan Earthquake struck, local newspapers in the Tohoku region, especially in the disaster-affected areas, are still trying to find a way to report on the disaster as they struggle with a declining media presence, a declining population, a stagnant local economy, and the Internet and social networking services.　They are also facing the challenge of “fading away”.　Local media are closely involved in disaster prevention and the rebuilding of disaster-affected areas through journalism, though their role is not always properly discussed or appreciated.　There are examples of collaboration between researchers, including geographers, and the media in many parts of Japan.　In the Tohoku region, there is scope for even greater collaboration between the media and geography who deal with human activities and nature.