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This study evaluates the impact of “group subsidies,” a policy intervention to repair and reinstall damaged capital goods and facilities of small and medium-sized enterprises after the Great East Japan earthquake.

The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami catastrophically struck the eastern part of Japan on March 11, 2011. Fire and Disaster Management Agency reported that the number of deaths was 19,667 and the number of missing persons was 2566 as of September 7

This case study explores how Japan developed guidelines to plan and implement assessment and retrofitting projects, and established a national subsidy programme, in order to strengthen all high school buildings to resist earthquakes.

This booklet is a record of the impacts and challenges the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 brought on the postal sector in Japan.

“Towards Mabi’s Recovery – Lessons One Year On” is an effort of a group of professionals and practitioners through direct field observations, interviews and document review after the 2018 West Japan flooding in Mabi, Kurashiki, in the Okayama prefecture

This is a record of the reconstruction from March 2011 to March 2019 after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in Iwate.

The White Paper on Disaster Management in Japan 2019 provides an overview of current disaster management measures in Japan.

This book was compiled by the Reconstruction Agency to introduce the various "challenges" of companies and organizations in the three prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima toward industrial reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake.