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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />ROO-21 <br /> <br />Shigeo Tatsuki <br />School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University, <br />Nishinomiya, Japan. <br />email: tatsuki@kwansei.ac.jp <br /> <br />Post Disaster Studies ofIndividual Preparedness and <br />Life Recovery: Two Perspectives <br />by: Tsuganezawa, T, Tatsuki, S., Saitoh, C., & Minemoto, K. <br />(paper presented at US-Japan Workshop, Effects of Near-Field Earthquake Shaking. Radisson <br />Miyako Hotel, San Francisco, March 21, 2000,) <br /> <br />Questionnaire surveys on I) post-disaster attitudinal differences in preparedness among college <br />students in impacted and un-impacted regions and on 2) life recovery of elderly earthquake <br />victims who moved from temporary to pennanent housing were conducted, <br /> <br />A total of 492 college students from two regions, Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe (N=26 I ) and Shizuoka- <br />Kanagawa (N=23 I), responded to a questionnaire designed to examine attitudinal differences in <br />preparedness, In both regions, the three most valuated infonnation were in regards to I) supply <br />offood and relief material, 2) safety offamily members and 3) secondary disaster and aftershock. <br />Different preference patterns emerged with regard to the remaining infonnational categories, <br />suggesting that respondents in an impacted region valuated infonnation that was necessary for <br />the maintenance of post-disaster everyday life, and that those in an un-impacted region valuated <br />infonnation concerning governmental assistance programs, <br /> <br />The life recovery study examined the current life concerns and living condition, and frequencies <br />of contact with different types of social support providers among 6 I elderly earthquake victims <br />(22 male and 39 female) who were settled in pennanent public housing units specifically <br />designed for the elderly. <br />