9. Community-Building Survey of Safety and Living for a Lively Future: Results From Taro, Kuwagsaki, and Unosumai Districts

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.

Individual property rights guarantee in Sect. 3, Supreme Court judgments on compensation.

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.

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.