Barriers to Long-Term Return after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Lessons from Hirono Town

Bruch, Carl; Karimi, Syafruddin; Manatunge, Jagath; Nakayama, Mikiyasu

doi:10.5296/jad.v3i1.10650

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“…More recently, Bruch et al (2017) investigated barriers to the long‐term return of evacuees from the town of Hirono in the aftermath of the Tõhoku earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident on 11 March 2011. The authors found that older people and those who stayed in temporary housing for longer periods were more likely to return.…”

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“…The authors found that older people and those who stayed in temporary housing for longer periods were more likely to return. Younger people said that they prioritised places with better educational opportunities for their children, job prospects, and social amenities (Bruch et al, 2017). In addition, based on a survey of 520 households from areas that were affected by the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, Munro and Managi (2017) found that people with children were less likely to return, whereas higher income households were more likely to do so.…”

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Return migration after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: the impact of institutional and individual factors

Bien

2020

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This paper explores two groups of factors, individual and institutional, that have influenced return migration since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in Japan on 11 March 2011. Based on an analysis of statistical data on evacuees, a questionnaire completed by 289 people who migrated, and 19 semi-structured interviews with disaster-affected people, the research found (apropos of institutional factors) that while the lifting of the government's evacuation order has had no immediate effect on return decisions, the termination of monetary compensation and housing subsidies has had a significant bearing on them. As for individual factors, a strong sense of attachment to home and the possession of property, job obligations, and having family members in the home location are key determinants of return decisions. Moreover, the paper suggests that there could be differing opinions among Japanese government officials and evacuees regarding radiation exposure risk and the degree to which infrastructure and social services have been rehabilitated.

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Return migration after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: the impact of institutional and individual factors

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2020

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“…Bruch et al (2017), however, found, to our surprise, that more than 70% of the residents in the temporary housing felt very happy or somewhat happy about their stay. They had both positive reasons for staying and negative reasons for not leaving temporary housing.…”

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“…Therefore, the following initiatives are required for improvement: survival and continuation of the affected communities, inputs from the communities to the decision-makers by way of the local governments, and long-term policies that take account of the changing livelihood and opinion of the evacuees. Bruch et al (2017) addressed the issue of how the evacuees living in temporary housing regard their livelihood and their return home. They conducted a series of structured interviews with people from Hirono Town, who were still living in temporary housing four and a half years after the disaster, to understand why people were still in temporary housing, rather than moving back to Hirono Town or on to more permanent arrangements in other locations.…”

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Return Migration after Natural Disasters

Nakayama

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Mimura

2017

JAD

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This special issue features policy priorities, public perceptions, and policy options for addressing post-disaster return migration in the United States, Japan, and a couple of Asian countries. It includes a series of case studies in these countries, which are based on a sustained dialogue among scholars and policymakers about whether and how to incentivize the return of displaced persons, considering social, economic, and environmental concerns. The research team, composed of researchers from Indonesia, Japan, Sri Lanka, and the United States, undertook a collaborative and interdisciplinary research process to improve understanding about how to respond to the needs of those displaced by natural disasters and to develop policy approaches for addressing post-disaster return. The research focused on the Journal of Asian Development

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“…Although it took 15 days, the government eventually recommended, but did not order and did not coordinate, the evacuation of local communities, leaving the affected people to evacuate on their own. The government subsequently declared an exclusion zone of 20 kilometers (Bruch et al, 2017;Rangieri & Ishiwatari, 2014). The final count of people left completely homeless by the destruction was about 556,000 that by October 2011 had been reduced to 65,753.…”

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Disasters and Large-Scale Population Dislocations: International and National Responses

Oliver‐Smith¹

2018

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science

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Large-scale displacement takes place in the context of disaster because the threat or occurrence of hazard onset makes the region of residence of a population uninhabitable, either temporarily or permanently. Contributing to that outcome, the wide array of disaster events is invariably complicated by human institutions and practices that can contribute to large-scale population displacements. Growing trends of socially driven exposure and vulnerability around the world as well as the global intensification and frequency of climate-related hazards have increased both the incidence and the likelihood of large-scale population dislocations in the near future. However, legally binding international and national accords and conventions have not yet been put in place to deal with the serious impacts, and material, health-related, and sociocultural losses and human rights violations that are experienced by the millions of people being swept up in the events and processes of disasters and mass population displacements. Effective policy development is challenged by the increasing complexity of disaster risk and occurrence as well as issues of causation, adequate information, lack of capacity, and legal responsibility. States, international organizations, state and international development and aid agencies must frame, define, and categorize appropriately disaster forced displacement and resettlement to influence effective institutional responses in emergency humanitarian assistance, transitional shelter and care, and durable solutions in managing migration and resettlement if return is not possible. The forms that disaster-associated forced displacements are projected to take and corresponding national responses are explored in the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka, a massive disaster in a nation riven by civil conflict; Hurricane Katrina of 2005 in the United States, where the scale and nature of displacement bore little relation to hazard intensity; and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and nuclear exposure incident exemplifying the emerging trend of complex, concatenating, multihazard disasters that bring about large-scale population displacements.

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Barriers to Long-Term Return after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Lessons from Hirono Town

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Return migration after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: the impact of institutional and individual factors

Return migration after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: the impact of institutional and individual factors

Return Migration after Natural Disasters

Disasters and Large-Scale Population Dislocations: International and National Responses

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