KAHOKU SHIMPO PUBLISHING CO.
The Lessons from the
Great East Japan Earthquake:
Five Years after the Disaster
Shinichi TAKEDA
Head of Disaster Risk Reduction-Education Section
Kahoku Shimpo Publishing Co.
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◎The Outline of Kahoku Shimpo
• Location: Sendai (the disaster-affected area)
• Number of Publications:
morning ver. 450,000; evening 70,000
• Numbers of Workers: 450
• Damage from the Disaster:
- Office was danger to collapse
- 15 newspaper stands were hit by tsunami
- 27 workers became the victims
- 2 branch offices were either swept by tsunami or
flooded
- System for publication was shut down
A Crisis to collect data, to write articles,
to transport, and to deliver
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★Somehow found a way to publish, and
deliver
★Functioned as the only media which can
give the accurate information
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◎The Most Significant Task:
Lose of the Memory
・People are about to lose
the memory of the disaster,
Lack of the interests
・80% says they’re losing the
memory
・People in the disaster-affected
area do not pay enough attention
・The necessity of support in
the disaster-affected area
・The Crisis to losing the memory
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★The essence: 20,000 victims
★Avoid the terrible incident
★Prepare for disasters for the victims
★Media: teaching and enlightenment
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◎1)The Archive
・Constructed in 2013
・Collaborating with the
International Research
Institute for Disaster
Science at Tohoku Uni.
・Pictures: more than
30,000
・Articles: more than
70,000
・Open to the Pubic on
the Internet
http://kahoku-
archive.shinrokuden.irides.t
ohoku.ac.jp/kahokuweb/;js
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FF163186F31DD83DDE?0
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◎2) Serial Publication
・Title: Wagakoto
・Share the experience
of the disaster
・Published 6 months
・Examine the details of
the disaster
・Restore the record
・Trans. English by Harvard
Uni.
・Open to the Public in 2015
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http://www.kahoku.co.jp
/special/spe1151/

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◎3) Musubi Juku
has been held since May 2012
・For neighborhood association,
schools, or companies
・Discuss a plan to reduce risk
・Share the details
・Held in Chili and Indonesia
Result: keep our memories of disaster
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★the Oath to
“Protect the life and the locals”
★Duty for Kahoku: transmission&
enlightenment
★Strength to inform by
establishing new office
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◎The Importance to Collaborate
・The limitation to take as an individual
・transmission and enlightenment:
important to collaborate
・Established an organization in April, 2015
・Roundtable Discussion to Reduce
the Disaster Risk in Miyagi
・Participants: uni, administration,
corporations, information mediums
・Signed in 66 org. & 120 ppl
・regular meeting: every month share info.
・Executive office: Kahoku Shimpo & Tohoku Uni.
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★The Key: Collaboration of the media and the
academia
★Kahoku Shimpo: Demonstrate the capability to
coordinate
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KAHOKU SHIMPO PUBLISHING CO.
Thank You for
the Participation!
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