Understanding the pre-disaster lives of the people, illuminating the problem that they have faced for years, and examining its relationship with the disaster are indispensable when we envision reconstruction and restoration of the devastated socio-economic geography in the Sanriku coastal areas among many parts hardly hit by the 2011 East Japan Earthquake. This is evident if the survivors are to be readapted to both well-known and changing geographical settings of their ancestral land.
Understanding the pre-disaster lives of the people, illuminating the problem that they have faced for years, and examining its relationship with the disaster are indispensable when we envision reconstruction and restoration of the devastated socio-economic geography in the Sanriku coastal areas among many parts hardly hit by the 2011 East Japan Earthquake. This is evident if the survivors are to be readapted to both well-known and changing geographical settings of their ancestral land.