ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews Tokuzo Fukuda's concept of "human reconstruction" in contrast to the "reconstruction" policy in progress, and finds some basic ideas of "well-being". It focuses on the lessons learned in the face of a crisis, with reference to "well-being", not "happiness". In the face of the "unprecedented" disaster, the Japanese government and bureaucracy aimed to restore a "normal" state that is "restoration of order" rather than to ensure the well-being of each disaster survivor. Japanese society is challenged to construct basic principles and conceptual framework of welfare in full view of "dwelling" and "medical access" for individual life, in particular for the elderly and the disabled. A basic philosophy is essential to reconstruction, not only because it leads the government to work out a scheme and devise a program, but to integrate a variety of movements and activities for "reconstruction" by clarifying the goal.
