Three Years After a Mega-disaster: Recovery Policies, Programs and Implementation After the Great East Japan Earthquake - Post-Tsunami Hazard: Reconstruction and Restoration - page 30

Kinki
1.36%

Chugoku
0.75%

Shikoku
0.17%

Kyushu/Okinawa
1.16% Hokkaido

1.01%

Tokai
1.01%

Kanto
11.07%

Tohoku
83.48%

Iwate Pref.

Pop. in temp. housing 33,947

No. in home of relatives' 353

5 Pop. in hospital

Total 34,305

% national total 13.02

Miyagi Pref.

86,139

Pop. in temp. housing

No. in home of relatives' 1,085

5
87,229
33.12

Pop. in hospital

Total

% national total

Fukushima Pref.

Pop. in temp. housing 83,190

3,219
0
86,409
32.81

No. in home of relatives'

Pop. in hospital

Total

% national total

Fig. 3.1 Distribution of the displaced population (Source: Data from the national Reconstruction
Agency on the number of displaced residents as of April 10, 2014) (Source: National Reconstruction
Agency of Japan)

GEJE and the current status of their local implementation. Particular attention is
given to considerations of risk reduction from future tsunamis as part of the recovery
and rebuilding as well as the level of awareness of the need for both physical and
non-physical approaches to future disaster mitigation.

3.2 Recovery Planning Policies and Programs

to Reduce Future Tsunami Risk

There has been an array of planning processes, decisions, and implementation
efforts in the fi rst 3 years of recovery following the GEJE and when considered
collectively roughly defi ne 3 year-long phases in the rebuilding process (Fig. 3.2 ).