Making the chronological disaster information and archives of disaster stories in order to prevent repeated problems after severe disasters

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25540157
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Takushoku University
• Principal Investigator: TAKESHITA Masanori 拓殖大学, 国際学部, 准教授 (70625772)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 東日本大震災 / 台風ハイアン / ネパール大地震 / 物語 / ロジスティクス / レジリアンス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Disaster victims who experienced the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake could predict what kind of problems would happen after the Great East Japan Earthquake, but the Japanese government could not prevent them. That was the main question of this research and in order to solve it, we tried to make ‘chronological disaster information’ with story-based interviews in Tohoku region Japan. The interview results revealed that Japan lacked two key elements: logistics and resilience. We, therefore, conducted detailed structured interviews in Philippines where a lot of international organizations such as WFP, Red Cross and Red Crescent performed prompt ‘logistics’ immediately after the typhoon Haiyan. We also conducted detailed structured interviews in Nepal which shows strong ‘resilience’ after the Great Nepal earthquake in 2015. More than 250 households’ data indicated the important elements which Japan lost.

Free Research Field

物語学、防災、農業、環境学