@article{0fda62982b96412ab7bc2825cc7d74e2,
title = "Perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan with respect to cultural, information, disaster and social issues",
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.",
keywords = "COVID-19, Culture, Disaster, Information, Japan, Social impact",
author = "Anawat Suppasri and Miwako Kitamura and Haruka Tsukuda and Boret, {Sebastien P.} and Gianluca Pescaroli and Yasuaki Onoda and Fumihiko Imamura and David Alexander and Natt Leelawat and Syamsidik",
note = "Funding Information: The authors would like to express their sincere appreciation to the editor, the anonymous reviewers, and the IRIDeS's ethics committee for their valuable comments on the questionnaire and the manuscript. This research was financially supported by UCL-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds and a COVID-19-related research support project (IRIDeS). The authors wish to thank sincerely Monica Cardarelli, Luca Galbusera, and Georgios Giannopoulos from European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy, who agreed to use some questions from this survey and provided valuable insights in framing the questionnaire. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 The Authors",
year = "2021",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100158",
language = "English",
volume = "10",
journal = "Progress in Disaster Science",
issn = "2590-0617",
publisher = "Elsevier Ltd.",
}