The Disaster Recovery Process and Rashomon Effect

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  • 「羅生門問題」からみた被災地の復興過程
  • 「羅生門問題」からみた被災地の復興過程 : 茨城県大洗町を例に
  • 「 ラショウモン モンダイ 」 カラ ミタ ヒサイチ ノ フッコウ カテイ : イバラキケン オオアライマチ オ レイ ニ
  • The Case of Oarai Town, Ibaraki
  • 茨城県大洗町を例に

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The devastating and lingering impact of the accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant has made the process of disaster recovery from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake even more complicated and difficult. Because even experts sometimes provide totally different views on the safety of radioactive contamination, the boundary between scientific truth and misconception has been blurred considerably. This makes fuhyo higai, or damages caused by harmful rumors and misinformation, a serious problem. In this study, we first made an overview of diverse types of fuhyo higai. Secondly, we conducted field research at Oarai Town, Ibaraki Prefecture, one of the disasteraffected areas. Our results showed that in Oarai, a visible but relatively minor "Rashomon" problem, defined as the coexistence of contradictory interpretations of the same events, covers up a different Rashomon problem that is invisible but more serious. To overcome this, an "opportunity creation" approach that shows Oarai’s different and new face, such as town vitalization via animation, will be more effective than an "emergency management" approach, which focuses on only the issue of radioactive contamination.

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