Following the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, which caused unprecedented levels of damage, ‘local culture’ received a lot of attention as the driving force behind reconstruction.
Local culture is the living environment shaped by adaptation to the climate and natural features of the land, the history accumulated by generations of people living on the land, and the whole of life that is in turn created by this living environment and history – in short, the memories and life inherited and passed on within a region.
Following the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, which caused unprecedented levels of damage, ‘local culture’ received a lot of attention as the driving force behind reconstruction.
Local culture is the living environment shaped by adaptation to the climate and natural features of the land, the history accumulated by generations of people living on the land, and the whole of life that is in turn created by this living environment and history – in short, the memories and life inherited and passed on within a region.