ABSTRACT
This chapter will introduce the legislation to support disaster victims in Japan and look at the problems associated with each piece of legislation. The DCBA was enacted in the wake of the Ise Bay typhoon of 1959, and a significant volume of provisions concerning disaster victim support were subsequently added in amendments to the Disaster Countermeasures Basic Act (DCBA). Support organizations may want to provide support to disaster victims living in privately-rented temporary housing but find it difficult to approach them because of this. The Disaster Relief Act (DRA) was enacted in the wake of the Nankai Earthquake (1946). The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare had jurisdiction under the DRA at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (GEJE). The features of the GEJE was that it resulted in many wide-area evacuees evacuating their disaster-affected municipalities. The disaster victim directory is created in order to facilitate the provision of smooth livelihood reconstruction support to disaster victims.
