An Examination of the Self-Evaluations Over Time of the 3.11 Tsunami Survivors Regarding Their Post-Disaster Recovery

Abstract

In this study, the factors that affected the sense of recovery of the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake were analyzed from both short-term and long-term perspectives. We used the results of questionnaire surveys conducted in 2013 and 2017 amongst residents of Noda Village, Iwate Prefecture, to determine the factors that affected the sense of recovery of their personal lives as well as their sense of the recovery of the village itself. We also examined how differences in the choice of temporary housing affected their sense of recovery. Utilizing decision tree analysis, we clarified differences in the key factors that impacted their short-term and long-term perspectives as well as the sense of their own recovery and their sense of the village's recovery. Because the introduction of publicly-funded rental housing deviated from the temporary housing networks available in previous disasters, there remains the possibility that although the short-term sense of recovery of those in publicly-funded temporary housing was relatively low, it seemed to increase over the long-term.

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