Abstract
The roles of stakeholders in civil society are dependent on each other and closely intertwined with economic development. Private sectors have played a major role in supporting of the local economy in normal and disaster time and thus Japanese government have promoted Business Continuity Planning as a part of their policy framework. And after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Thailand Flood, the Japanese Private sectors found their efforts were incomplete. This chapter will focus on Japanese Government policy, embedding situation and challenges on private sector resilience.
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Ono, T. (2015). Role of Private Sectors and BCP in Japan. In: Izumi, T., Shaw, R. (eds) Disaster Management and Private Sectors. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55414-1_9
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