Anthropological and Sociological Studies on displaced persons and their association after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520922
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: Seisen University.
• Principal Investigator: Tatsumi Yoriko 清泉女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (20407381)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): FUKUTAKE Shintaro 上智大学, 総合グローバル学部, 教授 (80439330) ; HAMAMOTO Atsushi 名古屋市立大学, 人文社会系研究科, 准教授 (80457928) ; HARAGUCHI Yayoi 茨城大学, 人文学部, 教授 (20375356) ; TAKAKI Ryusuke いわき明星大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (30512157) ; FUSE Masahiko 福島工業高等専門学校, 准教授 (80280345) ; TOYOKAWA Satoshi 東京大学, 大学院医学系研究科, 准教授 (40345046) ; SUZUKI Naoki 清泉女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (10338577)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 避難 / 移動 / 文化人類学 / 社会学 / 災害 / 東日本大震災

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project focuses on internal displaced persons(IDPs) from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident. This project tries to find out how they evacuated from Fukushima, and how they have come to associate with the people at the resident areas.
This research finding is that the differences in radiation risk consciousness divides IDPs from the people who remained in Fukushima, from some of the current neighbors, and the IDPs themselves. Thus, what is important is, how IDPs negotiate the conditions of safe and peaceful living with the people around IDPs.
The members of the research project will work on further studies including such issues as double residence registration, communities without localities, issues of autonomy and risk communication.

Free Research Field

地域研究　文化人類学