In this paper, first we will briefly give an outline on Japanese citizens’ attitude towards self-help,
mutual-help and public-help and the current progress of listing residents requiring assistance during
disasters in chapter 2 and then explore the results of our attitude survey conducted in Miki city in chapter
3. Chapter 4 will analyze the situation surrounding submission of consent forms and how well the local
municipalities' policy of supporting of residents requiring assistance during disasters using the consent
method is known by residents. In conducting this analysis we paid special attention to the spatial
dimension, i.e. the place where the respondents live or the community to which the respondents belong.
Finally, chapter 5 will give concluding remarks in addition to future tasks posed by this research.