Chart. 75 Assigned intermediate supporting organizations

Name of organization	Name of the project	Project site
Specified non-profit organization, Ishinomaki NPO Center	Coordinating project for community renovation and living support in Ishinomaki City and Higashi-matsushima City	Ishinomaki City and Higashimatsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture
Specified non-profit organization, Machi-pot	Coordinating project for community renovation and living support in Kesenuma City and Tome City	Kesenuma City and Tome City, Miyagi Prefecture
Specified non-profit organization, Shizuoka Prefectural Volunteers Association	Coordinating project for living support in Ichinoseki City and Town of Shichigahama	Ichinoseki City and Town of Shichigahama, Iwate Prefecture
Specified non-profit organization, NPO Saitama Net	Coordinating project to support evacuees and their living in Kawauchi Village and Saitama Prefecture	Kawauchi Village, Futaba-gun, Fukushima Prefecture and Saitama Prefecture
Public Interest Incorporated Association, the City Planning Institute of Japan	Coordinating project for living support in Kitakami City and Otsuchi Town	Kitakami City and Otsuchi Town, Kamihei-gun, Iwate Prefecture
Specified non-profit organization, Gakuwari Net	Coordinating project for community renovation and living support in Minamisannriku Town	Minamisannriku Town, Motoyoshi-gun, Miyagi Prefecture
Kamaishi Platform Corporation.	Coordinating project to support community renovation in Kamaishi City	Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture
General Incorporated Association, Life Support Foundation	Coordinating project for community renovation and living support in Ofunato City	Ofunato Town, Iwate Prefecture
Life General Incorporated Association, Social Business Network	Coordinating project to support community renovation in Rikuzentakata City	Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture
Specified non-profit organization, Kyoto Disaster Volunteers Net	Coordinating project to support evacuees in Tomioka Town and Kawauchi Village	Tomioka Town and Kawauchi Village, Futaba-gun, Fukushima Prefecture
Specified non-profit organization, Symphony	Coordinating project to support evacuees in 6 prefectures in the Kinki area	Prefecture of Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Shiga, Nara and Wakayama

Source: MLIT

## Column Reconstruction of Okushiri Island, Hokkaido

At 10:17 p.m. on July 12, 1993, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 occurred off southwestern Hokkaido. The tsunami reached shore 2-4 minutes later and 230 people (198 from Okusiri-cho) died or went missing.

In the reconstruction process, people faced challenges in common with the Great East Japan Earthquake, such as settlement transfer to the upland or fishery resuscitation.

The Aonae area of Okushiri-cho, southern part of Okushiri Island suffered the most damage from the tsunami and a fire that started after the quake.

Okushiri-cho constructed four housing complexes on a 20 to 30m elevated area, and about 190 households, mainly residents from the Aonae area, evacuated there en masse. (55 households were designated by the state-backed evacuating project.)

“The Group to Discuss the Reconstruction of Okushiri” formed by mainly residents in Aonae worked as an intermediate organization between the administration and the residents for their settlement transfer. This group had also taken a survey of the reconstruction process of Mount Unzen-Fugen and made suggestions to the town office about the reconstruction of the town based on a questionnaire completed by disaster victims. In accordance with the suggestions, the town administration adopted part of settlement transfer plan. The group also served as a coordinator for adjusting the restoration funds to the supporting projects as well as relief money to disaster victims.

On December 2011, five months after the earthquake, a draft plan of the master schedule on the restoration of the town was drawn up after conducting meetings many times to give explanations to local residents. The group served as a liaison between the administration and residents, and held many discussions with the town office. Thus, the mutual cooperation contributed to quick restoration of the town.

The group pointed out that the population aging rate in Okushiri Town is increasing and it is necessary to watch elderly residents when the collective relocation has started. The group also pointed out the necessity of getting specialist advice regarding the earthquake-proofing housing and the prevention of disasters for the construction of the new community.