The Implications of the Great Hanshin Earthquake in the Advanced Civilization

我在神户的高取区做了持续的研究。地方社区在地震救援、住房管理和重建方面的作用和职能是前三年的重点。在过去的一年里，我从“公民社会与风险意识”的角度来思考各种现象。在这些调查中，我可以总结出五点地震对市中心地区的破坏最为严重，那里的社会贫困已经积累起来虽然发生了各种都市灾害，但由于发生时间在日出之前，造成的损失并不大神户市的城市规划以工商管理的成功而闻名。但是这次地震暴露了它的防灾措施很差。它暗示着商业成功所带来的城市发展的失败和现代时代的终结病人们努力重建他们的生活。在这一过程中，许多志愿团体、非政府组织和非政府组织支持了受害者，并推动了他们建设新的公民社会的活动当代日本面临着“风险社会”带来的诸多问题。

I did continuous research in Takatori district in Kobe. The role and functions of local communities in earthquake rescue, shelter administration and reconstruction were focused in the former three years. I considered the various phenomena from the viewpoint of "civil society and risk consciousness" in the last year.In these investigations I could summarize five points.1 The earthquake damage was the severest in the inner-city areas, where the social poverty had been accumulated.2 Various kinds of metropolitan disaster occurred but the damages were not so heavy because the time of the occurrence was before sunrise.3 Kobe city's urban planning had been famous of the success of business administration. But the earthquake revealed its disaster measures were very poor. It implies the failure of the urban development attained by the business success and the end of the modern era as such.4 The sufferers made great efforts to reconstruct their lives. In that process many volunteer groups, NPO and NGO supported sufferers and advanced their activities for constructing new civil society.5 The contemporary Japan is confronted with many problems produced by a "risk society".