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The present study updates the current movement of disaster volunteers in Japanese society since recent earthquakes, i.e., the 2007 Noto, the 2007 Chuetsu‐"Oki, and the 2008 Iwate‐#Miyagi. Disaster volunteers have played critical roles in disaster relief in Japanese society since the 1995 Kobe Earthquake and become an essential part of the society for more than a decade. The 2004 Niigata Chuetsu earthquake, a few months
before we celebrated the 10th anniversary of Kobe, brought us a chance to examine our disaster relief system with disaster volunteers. It was true that some lessons from Kobe were applied to Chuetsu and that new issues (e.g., long‐"term volunteer activities for the revitalization of mountainous rural villages) were resolved by disaster volunteers.
However, volunteers for disaster were so organized that they tended to lose a chance to face survivors. In other words, disaster volunteers are supposed to help survivors, but they participated in relief activities for survivors without actually seeing them under the pressure to the organized activity: The present study names it the power toward the social order. It was disaster volunteers themselves who realized this problem. At the relief of Noto earthquake in March, 2008, some student volunteers formed a group for footbath for survivors through which they directly touched individual survivors at shelters, while some volunteers supported by a few disaster non‐#profit organizations started to keep staying with local volunteers, who were also survivors, even without any
specific purposes. These direct connections with survivors gave us hope for the future of disaster volunteers. The present study summarizes the recent trends of disaster volunteers in Japan and conceptualizes the frontier under the context of Japanese society.

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Footbath for Survivors
 3. Keep Staying with Local Volunteers
 4. Discussion
 

저자

• Tomohide Atsumi [ Professor, Center for the Study of Communication‐Design Osaka University, Japan ]

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  충북대학교 국가위기관리연구소 학술세미나

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  2006~2010

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