
How-tos | HOME TRUTHS Apr 2, 2017
Temporary disaster housing has an unforeseen permanence
by Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku
The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake left 110,000 people in three prefectures without shelter. Most of these people moved into emergency evacuation centers while the authorities prepared temporary housing for them. About 53,000 prefabricated housing units, called kasetsu, were built in accordance with a national ...