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Recovery Collection: Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011

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Introduction

The Japan earthquake and tsunami prompted extensive damage, including the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

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Documents and publications

Great East Japan Earthquake: Odaka District, Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture Promotion to Create an Environment for People to Return, by Supporting the People and Culture to Become the Anchor of Reconstruction

The document introduces the case study about reconstruction from Great East Japan Earthquake in Odaka District, Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture. (Soft Measures, such as Evacuation Drills, etc.)
Cabinet Office (Japan)
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Great East Japan Earthquake: Higashimatsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture Implementation of Town Development Based on Talk between Council of Reconstruction & Town Development and City Administration

The document introduces the case study about reconstruction from Great East Japan Earthquake in Higashimatsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture. (Process of Consensus Building among Residents)
Cabinet Office (Japan)
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Great East Japan Earthquake: Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture; Elementary & Junior High Schools and Nurseries in Shin-Hebita District and City Realization of Town Development to Overcome Disruption of Energy Supply in the Event of a Disaster

The document introduces the case study about reconstruction from Great East Japan Earthquake in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture. (Development of Disaster Management Facilities Integrated in Town Development)
Cabinet Office (Japan)
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Great East Japan Earthquake: Ando District, Otsuchi Town, Iwate Prefecture Developing a Disaster Management Plan by Accumulating Lessons of Disaster in a Bottom-Up Manner, and Repeatedly Verifying the Plan by Conducting Drills

The document introduces the case study about reconstruction from Great East Japan Earthquake in Ando District, Otsuchi Town, Iwate Prefecture. (Soft Measures, such as Evacuation Drills, etc.)
Cabinet Office (Japan)
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Great East Japan Earthquake: Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture Development of Disaster Management Bases Integrated in Town Development by Cooperation of Residents

The document introduces the case study about reconstruction from Great East Japan Earthquake in Kamaishi City, Iwate prefecture. (Development of Disaster Management Bases Integrated in Town Development; and Process of Consensus Building among Residents)
Cabinet Office (Japan)
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Coastal exposure and residents’ mental health in the afected areas by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

This study aims to confirm whether there was an association between sea visibility and coastal proximity and mental health.
Nature Scientific Reports
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2021

Maladaptation, fragmentation, and other secondary effects of centralized post-disaster urban planning: The case of the 2011 “cascading” disaster in Japan

This report details how previous studies have documented the negative impacts and unexpected secondary effects of post-disaster housing development. Here, it builds on this tradition to explore how post-disaster urban planning and risk mitigation measures affect internal migrations after a major disaster.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
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2021

Double debt disaster: Law, policy, and social justice in the wake of Japan’s 2011 tsunami

"Double Debt Disaster" examines an increasingly serious and widespread, yet underexamined, phenomenon: obstacles to recovery from catastrophes caused by the concurrence of pre-disaster obligations with post-disaster capital needs and the destruction of collateral assets. No case is more instructive for understanding these problems than the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, which entered history as the costliest disaster prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
German Institute for Japanese Studies
Great East Japan Earthquake Lessons Learned & Know-How Gained
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Case Studies
2021

Great East Japan Earthquake Lessons Learned & Know-How Gained

This compendium brings together expert knowledge, analyzes key recovery case studies, and extracts lessons and know-how from ten years of recovery experience from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
Reconstruction Agency (Japan)
Documents and publications
2020

Reconstruction and revitalization in Fukushima a decade after the “triple disaster” struck: Striving for sustainability and a new future vision

This article focuses on one aspect of this -- the efforts that are being made to bring about deeper transformative changes that aim to make the region in and around Fukushima both more sustainable and resilient.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)

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