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This chapter summarizes the result of the questionnaire survey in the 11 districts of temporary housing complex where the 2011-Great East Japan Tsunami affected household concentrate, conducted in January 2015, followed by a caravan tour that reported the results in August and September 2015. Questionnaires were distributed to all households within each temporary housing complex with distribution to a total of 3,296 households (up to three persons over the age of 18 within a household could provide separate responses). A total of 967 responses were received, a response household rate of 19.8%. Upon receiving the results of the responses, public seminars that addressed the topic of future community building were conducted in 8 districts. The following series of reports will summarize the questionnaire results and topics raised at the public seminars on Taro and Kuwagasaki districts in Miyako city and Unosumai district in Kamaishi city, Iwate Prefecture.
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According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’ “Policy Evaluation Guideline” (approved in 2004, revised in 2012), clear identification of the policy structure (policy, measures, operations) (1–1) and informing the budget and accounts for the policy evaluation is required (1–3), and further specialized policy evaluations for important policies is necessary (1–4). Concerning evaluation methods, program evaluation methods of the efficiency of usage of funds at the operations level, performance evaluation methods reliant upon quantitative and qualitative targets that demonstrate achievement of policy objectives (or alternative objectives if there are no basic objectives), and for important policies and policies linked to systematic reform, the relationship between policy and results, external factors, the necessity of administrative involvement, alternative proposals, overall consistency between policies and priority levels are expected to be researched and considered in the comprehensive evaluation method.
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Individual property rights guarantee in Sect. 3, Supreme Court judgments on compensation.
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According to the author’s interview with Kamaishi City’s Recovery Promotion Department in March 2016, the Recovery Community Building Committee in each district are mainly organized as directed by the administration, but the Unosumai Recovery Community Building Committee is unique for being an organization led by the residents’ leaders. According to the author’s interviews with the leaders, they have acted as an intermediary between the administration and residents.
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Following the 1991 eruption of Mount Unzen and the 1993 Okushiri tsunami, which each had comparatively easy reconstruction of housing, the distribution of donations from across the country equaled 10 million yen per household. By comparison, at the time of the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake, which had a much higher number of victims, the distribution of donations was a much smaller amount of 100,000–300,000 yen per household.
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Kaneko, Y. (2017). Community-Building Survey of Safety and Living for a Lively Future: Results From Taro, Kuwagsaki, and Unosumai Districts. In: Hokugo, A., Kaneko, Y. (eds) Community-Based Reconstruction of Society. SpringerBriefs in Economics(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5463-1_9
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