Regarding rehabilitation and reconstruction after the disasters, from a long-term perspective, it's important to avoid the next disaster by planning and working out a response to a disaster which can present itself again in the near future.This article introduces reconstruction, prevention work and counter measures from tsunami damage taking the reconstruction from the tsunami damage of the 1993 Hokkaido-Nansei-Oki Earthquake of 1993 and Indian Ocean Tsunami and Banda Aceh, Sumatra which is in the midst of the present reconstruction work as examples.
Selected Papers No.8