Involvement of immigrants in community planning for disaster resilience: a prospect and paradigm

For a long time, Japanese understood that immigrants would immigrate from Japan to overseas countries. However according to the aging progresses and labor force declines, we are gradually accepting immigrants from various counties. Professions and/or Jobs are also becoming wider in choice from unfavorable ones for Japanese younger generation, such as car factories, nurses and farmers, to skilled ones after finishing higher educations. In this context, it is regrettable that there are many cases where disaster information is targeted to transfer only to Japanese in spite of frequent disasters in Japan. Although this article suggests improvement of the way to accept immigrants and refugees, it could not be realized unless understanding different cultures and customs as a background of their way of life. Consequently, we feel that it is authors’strong belief that Japanese society could not get the seeking diversity and resilience for the innovative and safe society without involving heterogeneous people in community planning