Three Decades of Disaster Volunteers in Japan : Prospects for Response, Recovery, and Prevention

サイガイ　ボランティア　30ネン　キュウエン　フッコウ　ボウサイ　ヘ　ノ　テンボウ

アツミ, トモヒデ

Atsumi, Tomohide

災害救援

災害復興

地域防災

Disaster Volunteers

Disaster Relief

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Preparedness

The present study summarizes the history of disaster volunteer activities over the past 30 years, from the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which was called the first year of disaster volunteers, to the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake, and presents the issues that need to be considered regarding disaster volunteer activities at this time. First, we present the history of disaster volunteer activities ethnographically along the lines of disaster relief, disaster recovery, and regional disaster prevention, focusing on the author's own experiences in the field. In doing so, the author suggests that the issues of coping with the social drive for order, the initiation of shrinkage research for depopulated areas, and the involvement of diverse parties from the outset for each of these situations, respectively. Finally, we looked ahead to the road to the reemergence of disaster volunteerism which consists of free will of citizens.