15 years after the Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake How to maintain the region Challenge 23:31 on October 23
It has been 15 years since the Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake, which killed 68 people. In disaster-affected areas, recovery from earthquakes has progressed, but the issue is how to maintain the area by accelerating population decline and aging.
In the Niigata Chuetsu earthquake that occurred on October 23, 2004, a maximum of 7 earthquakes were observed, and 68 people were sacrificed, and more than 120,000 houses were damaged.
On the 23rd from the earthquake, it will be 15 years, and memorial ceremonies will be held in various places, such as Nagaoka City, where silence will be held at 5:56 pm when the earthquake occurred.
In these areas, reconstruction has progressed over the past 15 years, including roads and other infrastructure improvements and housing reconstruction.
On the other hand, after the earthquake, population decline and aging are accelerating in various places, and five of them died, and former residents of Yamakoshi, where all residents were forced to evacuate due to landslides, etc., now Yamakoshi in Nagaoka City. In the last 15 years, the population has decreased by 56% over the past 15 years, making it difficult to get snow removal work in the winter and to watch over the area.
Nagaoka City, etc. is promoting the use of support personnel systems to expand the population of exchanges through tourism and to monitor the mountainous areas of the country, but how to maintain the region is a challenge.