Community Reconstruction and Functional Change Following a Disaster in Japan
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1982
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Disaster Research Center
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Within a society, the seeds of change germinate, grow, fortify themselves, and finally bear fruit by altering the social system. In that a society is the necessary result of the conditions of its own existence and the action of these seeds, the seeds take on the character of unavoidable to these inner drives, a social system of which are touched off by chance events and thus act as shock factors that perturb and change the system.
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social change, Japan, Mt. Usu, natural disaster