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Social Capital in Disaster : From the Great East Japan Earthquake

The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011 revealed our unconscious behavior and thinking in daily life. The disaster consisted of earthquake, tsunami, and the accident of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. We became aware of the importance of social capital in taking refuge within the community. In these situations the traditional or bonding social capital worked well. The measures devised to deal with this emergency by those who was doing the actual work was generally appropriate. But the decisions and measures made by the government was thrown into great confusion at that moment. Afterwards the volunteer and NPO activities by the citizens have been vitalized. This means the bridging social capital has emerging and spreading in Japan. On the other hand we made the questionnaire about the disaster prevention awareness in the central Tokyo before and after the Great Earthquake. We found the importance the mutual help in these emergencies. I presented the policies of promoting the trend for ‘New Public’ measures in Japan.departmental bulletin pape

What We Have Learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake

This paper was originally read as a Presidential Address to the Second World Congress of the Public Choice Societies, in Miami, on March 11, 2012. In this address, I tried to point out the necessity for rethinking the conventional scope of public choice theory, in view of recent debates over social capital and of the course of events that had taken place in Japan since the Great Earthquake of March 11, 2011. The Great Earthquake left greater public awareness and perhaps even a new understanding of the bonds and ties along with volunteerism. It might be said that there was a transformation of bonding social capital into bridging social capital. This newly blossomed bridging social capital differs from market doctrines based on profits and losses in that it derives from mutual sympathy. Thus, I argue, a reaffirmation of Adam Smith’s concept of ‘sympathy’ in his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) might be a key in rethinking public choice theory in relation to social capital studies.departmental bulletin pape

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Rethinking the Great East Japan Earthquake and Social Capital

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Suggestions and Verification for Management of ITS for Driving Behaviour Decision Process Models

In the present study, a driving behaviour decision process model, in which psychological phenomena and physical phenomena from hazard perception to vehicle behaviour are integrated, is suggested. Feasibility of the driving behaviour decision process was determined in simulation by evaluating a web questionnaire. From those results, it was verified that there was a change induced by the introduction of ITS for each set process in the driving behaviour decision process. In addition, from observing the chain process, it was possible to logically identify what to improve on.conference pape

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