Perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan with respect to cultural, information, disaster and social issues

Anawat Suppasri; Miwako Kitamura; Haruka Tsukuda; Sebastien P. Boret; Gianluca Pescaroli; Yasuaki Onoda; Fumihiko Imamura; David Alexander; Natt Leelawat; Syamsidik

doi:10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100158

Perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan with respect to cultural, information, disaster and social issues

Anawat Suppasri, Miwako Kitamura, Haruka Tsukuda, Sebastien P. Boret, Gianluca Pescaroli, Yasuaki Onoda, Fumihiko Imamura, David Alexander, Natt Leelawat, Syamsidik

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Abstract

A questionnaire survey was distributed via the Internet to 600 respondents. Preliminary results revealed that most Japanese people regularly washed their hands and had low resistance to wearing masks even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Internet news was the most common source of information. Half of the respondents said they would “stay at home evacuation” if a disaster occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, reflecting the strategy promoted to reduce crowding in evacuation shelters. If a state of emergency must be reinstated, one-third of respondents said they could bear it for a few months and another one-third for a few weeks.

Original language	English
Article number	100158
Journal	Progress in Disaster Science
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100158
Publication status	Published - 2021 Apr

Keywords

COVID-19
Culture
Disaster
Information
Japan
Social impact

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Geography, Planning and Development
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Safety Research
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)

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