Abstract
On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake of magnitude 9.0 occurred, with the hypocenter offshore of the Sanriku coast or Tohoku region of Japan. The ensuing huge tsunami hit the east coast of Japan, causing unprecedented damage and nearly 16,000 deaths and less than 3,000 missing people. The tsunami also hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), causing a complete loss of power and hydrogen explosions. The government instructed local people living within a 20-kilometer radius of the power plant to evacuate from their homes to avoid radiation exposure. Inevitably, such an evacuation lasts a long time, and almost 290,000 people remain unable to return to their homes as of the end of August 2013. Some of these people are forced to live apart from their families in order to get a job or for their children’s education. This and other related questions will be addressed in this paper.