Field Survey for the Memorial Matters from the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25350496
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Natural disaster / Disaster prevention science
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Takemura Masayuki 名古屋大学, 減災連携研究センター, 寄附部門教授 (10416852)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TSUZUKI Mitsuo 名古屋大学, 減災連携研究センター, 寄付部門准教授 (30645007)
• Research Collaborator: TORAYA Kenji 名古屋大学, 減災連携研究センター, 寄付部門助教
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 関東大震災 / 神奈川県 / 慰霊碑 / 記念碑 / 地震防災 / 普及啓発

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Many memorial towers and monuments have been constructed for the heavy toll of life and for the restoration of villages or cities in Southern Kanto district. Death claimed a toll of about 105000 totally from the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake. These towers and monuments must be forever witnesses to the tragedy of the earthquake damage and spokesmen for the victim’s dying wish “don’t repeat such damages”. However, most of them have been already forgotten by the citizens. We thought it’s sacrilege and must use them for the public education of earthquake disaster prevention. This investigation is a search for all　the memorial matters from the Great Kanto earthquake mainly in Kanagawa Prefecture through the field survey. The number of the matters examined has been up to 634.

Free Research Field

地震学・地震工学