イチダ トモコ   ICHIDA Tomoko
  市田 知子
   所属   明治大学  農学部
   職種   専任教授
発表年月日 2016/08/11
発表テーマ Meaning of the farming restart after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident evacuation : a case study on Iitate Village, IRSA Congress 2016, August 11, 2016, Session 48, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
会議名 International Rural Sociology Association Congress 2016
主催者 IRSA
学会区分 国際学会
発表形式 口頭(一般)
単独共同区分 共同
開催地名 Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
発表者・共同発表者 Takayoshi Fukuda
概要 This presentation is based on a case study of Iitate village, still in designated as the forced evacuation zone triggered by Northeastern Great Earthquake Disaster on March 11th,2011 and the subsequent First Fukushima Nuclear Plant accident.
We interviewed four evacuees who resumed farming outside the village,and documented the process to reach successful resumption. We also discussed the possibility of regional restoration after their return to Iitate Village in the near future.
Before the Nuclear Plant accident, there were approximately 960 farms in Iitate Village. After the evacuation, those who resumed farming outside the village are approximately 20 and their farming style is diverse. We interviewed four farmers among them, and found that they were common in having strong will,to engage in farming again, by obtaining farmland in settled places and public funds. We also found that the damage compensation paid by Tokyo Electric Power Company, TEPCO, was insufficient but played an important role to resume farming in several cases.
For some municipalities but not for Iitate Village the central government decided to release the forced evacuation status, so that several farmers already returned home. In order to facilitate regional restoration after farmer's return to Iitate Village, it would be necessary to provide continuous support for restoring farmlands, funding and compensation depending on the individual situation and farming type.
Keywords Fukushima Nuclear Plant accident, Iitate Village, farming resumption, compensation, individualization