Quantitative Analysis of Factors Determining How Temples Became Evacuation Shelter in the Great East Japan Earthquake

ヒガシニホンダイシンサイ　ニ　オケル　ジイン　ノ　ヒナンジョ　カイセツ　ヨウイン　ノ　テイリョウテキ　ブンセキ

アンドウ, ノリアキ

Ando, Noriaki

シュウキョウ ト シャカイ コウケン ケンキュウカイ

寺院

避難所

Great East Japan Earthquake

temple

evacuation shelter

When the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred in 2011, many religious facilities, including Buddhist temples, were utilized as evacuation shelters. Although a large number of studies have been made on temples as shelters, there is little analysis determining what factors caused these temples to become shelters. To answer this question, this paper adopted binary logistic regression analysis using a dataset gathered by questionnaires distributed to each local government, and GIS. What the analysis makes clear is that government guidance played an important role in making temples become shelters.