Transformation and Issues of Community Disaster Prevention Activity before and after Great East Japan Earthquake

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-400
Author(s):  
Shinya Tsukada ◽  
Tetsuo Morita
Keyword(s):  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Disaster Prevention ◽  
Prevention Activity ◽  
Before And After

scholarly journals Trust and Happiness: Comparative Study Before and After the Great East Japan Earthquake

2014 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 919-935 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eiji Yamamura ◽  
Yoshiro Tsutsui ◽  
Chisako Yamane ◽  
Shoko Yamane ◽  
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Before And After

The School Education to Improve the Disaster Response Capacity : A Case of “Kamaishi Miracle”

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 845-856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshitaka Katada ◽  
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Masanobu Kanai ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Response ◽  
School Education ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Disaster Prevention ◽  
Prevention Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Response Capacity ◽  
Future Education

Many people died in the Great East Japan Earthquake. However, children in Kamaishi City survived by taking advantage of what they learned from disaster prevention education. It was called the “Kamaishi Miracle,” and the story spread around the world. In this study, the disaster prevention education that made possible the appropriate evacuation of the children is examined and future education possibilities are discussed. First, it should be pointed out that most disaster prevention education conducted before the earthquake took the form of “threatening disaster prevention education” or “knowledge-oriented disaster prevention education.” To solve the deficiencies in these programs, “attitude-oriented disaster prevention education” with a focus on children’s independence is proposed. In addition, three educational guidelines regarding evacuation from tsunamis are discussed. We also study the current status of disaster prevention education in Japan after the earthquake and show that when it puts an emphasis on life and community it have far-reaching effect.

Grasp of Disaster Situation and Support Need Inside Affected Area with Social Sensing – An Analysis of Twitter Data Before and After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster Occurring –

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shosuke Sato ◽  
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Kazumasa Hanaoka ◽  
Makoto Okumura ◽  
Shunichi Koshimura
Keyword(s):  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Earthquake Disaster ◽  
Social Sensing ◽  
Natural Language Text ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
Social Media Text ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Language Text

There are increasing expectations that social sensing, especially the analysis of social media text as a source of information for COP (Common Operational Picture), is useful for decision-making about responses to disasters. This paper reports on a geo-information and content analysis of three million Twitter texts sampled from Japanese Twitter accounts for one month before and after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake disaster. The results are as follows. 1) The number of Twitter texts that include geotag (latitude and longitude information) is too small for reliable analysis. However, a method of detecting the tweet’s location from the tweet’s text using GeoNLP (an automatic technology to tag geo-information from natural language text) is able to identify geo-information, and we have confirmed that many tweets were sent from stricken areas. 2) A comparison of Twitter data distribution before and after the disaster occurred does not identify clearly which areas were significantly affected by the disaster. 3) There were very few Twitter texts that included information about the damage in affected areas and their support needs.

MODEL DISASTER PREVENTION LESSONS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL BASED ON DISASTER PREVENTION EDUCATION POLICIES

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noriko Imura ◽  
Takashige Ishikawa
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Tohoku Earthquake ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Life Safety ◽  
Disaster Prevention ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Before And After

This study deals with disaster mitigation education in primary schools and as a final goal aims to improve citizens’ capabilities to mitigate disaster situations in society. This report summarizes the current national policy on safety education in Japan and follow it up with a summarization of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government policy, which is based on the national policy. In addition, it compares Japan’s education policy with that of New Zealand. Analysis revealed the following three points. First, the content of safety education in Japanese primary schools consists of six fields (traffic safety, daily life safety, disaster safety, etc.). Just before, and after, the Great Tohoku Earthquake in 2011, the main educational content changed from daily life safety to disaster safety. Second, by focusing on lessons, it was found that the content of disaster safety was taught not as part of various subjects but largely during “homeroom activities”. Third, it became clear that the subject of earthquakes now accounts for half of the disaster prevention lesson contents in Japanese primary schools and has been included in disaster prevention lesson contents in all school grades.

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