Summary Results of the 7th Survey of Nuclear Disaster Evacuees from Futaba, Fukushima-The First Survey since the Start of Return*-

Damage, Living Environment, and Reconstruction under the Great East Japan Earthquake

Insurance Research Department Keiko Iwasaki

■要旨

Surveys on damage, living environment and reconstruction under the Great East Japan Earthquake have been conducted by a research project, "International comparison of reconstruction of living infrastructure from disasters" (Yasuyuki Sawada, Professor, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo; Keiko Iwasaki, Researcher, NLI Research Institute) of the University of Tokyo since 2013. The surveys are targeted to all household heads of Futaba in Fukushima prefecture, where all residents were forced to evacuate due to the nuclear power plant accident caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred in 2011. Surveys were conducted in July 2013, December 2014, July 2016, December 2017, July 2019, December 2020 and October 2022. This paper reports the summary of results of the seventh survey conducted in October 2022. Since the evacuation order of a part of the town of Futaba was lifted on August 30th, this is the first survey conducted after Futaba residents started returning to home among the past seven rounds of surveys.

^* The seventh survey was the first survey conducted after the start of the return of the residents of Futaba Town in this continuous survey research targeting the residents of Futaba Town.

■目次

1――Basic Information
2――Health conditions
3――Change in social capital
4――Building relationship with residents at evacuation destinations
5――Summary of the findings from the seven rounds of surveys
Appendix: Sumamry Tables