Day 8 in Japan (1)



The first station for today is Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution. This museum is to the memory of a 7.3-magnitude earthquake which was happened on January 17, 1995. this caused an enormous damage including more than 6,400 dead.

There are mainly about five parts that this museum wants to show to its visitors. 

The first one is learning: using various opportunities to learn about disaster prevention and disaster reduction. 
The second one is protecting: our own lives and community need to be protected by ourselves. And the importance for the safe house to protect the family.
The third one is thinking: having imagination to what a natural disaster might cause.
The fourth one is creating: the importance to build the community independently and increase the ability to deal with the natural disaster.
The fifth one is help each other: the importance for disaster victims to have “securing housing” and “human support; the needs of the disaster-hit area and the necessary aid expected of community is important.

From the beginning of the earthquake to the end of the rebuilding the homeland, Citizen self-help at the very first of the disaster, community mutual-help when citizen waiting for the help from the public, and the public-help from the national/prefectural/municipal governments, all those three basic elements work together to rebuild the disaster area.

There are two things give me a deep impression. One is their volunteers, another is the result after they learn from the earthquake in 1995.

They had many volunteer activities. One of those is they have a support activity was introduced to help the victims with difficulty moving to a subsidized house such as an old single house hold or a handicapped house hold living in a provisional house. Most of the students also join into the huge volunteer group. Many high school suspended the class and let student to help the local people. They also have some organizations to help the animals. They provide house, food and medical care to the animals who lost with them family.

In the east building, it shows some date about another earthquake. The victim who is dead from crushing death is about 4 percent in 2011 earthquake. This number is much smaller than the number of people death in 1995 earth quake which is about 72.57 percent. I think one of the reason for the decrease of number people dead from crushing, is because Japanese people focus more about the firmness to their building so that building would not be easily to collapse and safer for the citizen.



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