Agricultural and Forestry Reconstruction After the Great East Japan Earthquake

Part I. The Road to Reconstruction from the Tsunami and Radioactive Contamination: Two and a Half Years On

1. Dealing with Disasters of Unprecedented Magnitude: The Local Government’s Tribulations and the Road to Reconstruction
Hidekiyo Tachiya

2. Tokyo University of Agriculture East Japan Assistance Project Assisting with Reconstruction: Guiding Principles, Planning, and Propagation of Benefits
Toshiyuki Monma

3. Characteristics of the Agricultural and Forestry Industries in the Soma Area and Damage Sustained as a Result of the Great East Japan Earthquake
Takahiro Yamada, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Toshiyuki Monma

Part II. Reconstruction from Tsunami Damage

4. Reconstruction Support for the Farmland Struck by Tsunami
Itsuo Goto, Kaisei Inagaki

5. Tsunami Damage to Farming Operations and the New Generation of Farmers and Farm Management
Yukio Shibuya, Takahiro Yamada, Nyamkhuu Batdelger, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Gentaro Suzumura, Toshiyuki Monma

6. Presenting a Model for the Revival of Rural Communities in Japan’s Disaster Zones
Shigeyuki Miyabayashi, Yasushi Takeuchi, Hiromu Okazawa, Tomonori Fujikawa, Yutaka Sasaki

7. Contributing to Restoration of Tidal Flats in Miyagi Prefecture’s Moune Bay Following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Susumu Chiba, Takeshi Sonoda, Makoto Hatakeyama, Katsuhide Yokoyama

Part III. Reconstruction from Radioactive Contamination

8. Initiatives by the Soil Fertilization Team to Develop Agricultural Technologies for Paddy Fields with Radioactive Contamination
Itsuo Goto, Kaisei Inagaki

9. The Potential for Producing Rice for Feed and Whole-Crop Rice Silage in Radiation-Contaminated Areas
Seiji Nobuoka

10. Developing and Trialing a System to Monitor Radionuclides in Individual Plots of Farmland to Help Reconstruction Farming in Contaminated Areas
Toshiyuki Monma, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Youichi Kawano, Dambii Byambasuren, Yuta Ono, Quar Evine

11. New Decontamination Methods for Parks and Other Areas in Which Radionuclides Have Accumulated
Mitsuo Kondo, Chizuko Mizuniwa

12. Forest Problems
Takahisa Hayashi

13. Nuclear Radiation Levels in the Forest at Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture
Iwao Uehara, Tomoko Seyama, Fumio Eguchi, Ryuichi Tachibana, Yukito Nakamura, Hiroya Ohbayashi

14. Radioactive Contamination of Ostriches in a Potentially Permanent Evacuation Zone
Hiroshi Ogawa, Hidehiko Uchiyama, Koji Masuda, Takeshi Sasaki, Tadao Watanabe, Toshiaki Tomizawa, Schu Kawashima

15. Radioactive Contamination in Some Arthropod Species in Fukushima
Tarô Adati, Sota Tanaka

16. A Consumer Survey Approach to Reputation-Based Damage Affecting Agricultural Products and How to Overcome It
Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Shizuka Matsumoto, Makoto Hoshi, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Monma

Part IV. Activities and Impressions of Students and Farmers Who Supported the Project

17. Staking Recovery Hopes on Soma Revival Rice
Kaisei Inagaki, Tomoko Ninagi, Saburo Sasaki, Akiko Sato

18. Impressions of the Students Who Participated in the Radioactivity Monitoring System of Farmland
Volodymyr Ganzha, Keiji Kanamori, Hana Fujimoto, Ryo Itakura

19. Impressions of the Forestry Managers and Students Who Participated in the Radioactivity Damage Investigation of Forests
Eihachi Horiuchi, Kiyoaki Sasaki, Masaaki Itakura, Chisato Yasukawa, Chihiro Kinoshita

Nyckelord: Environment, Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection, Natural Hazards, Agriculture