PROCESS OF CHANGES IN LAND USE AND OWNERSHIP PATTERNS IN THE HINTERLAND OF TSUNAMI-PRONE COMMUNITY

This study examines the hinterland of the settlement in Kirikiri, Otsuchi-cho, Iwate Prefecture, a Tsunami-Prone Community. The aim is to elucidate the process of long-term changes in the hinterland using land ownership data. The findings indicate that large-scale landowners residing near the backlands and other landowners living in the lowlands and near the coast exhibited distinct behaviors during the process of residential land conversion in the village’s backlands since the 1960s. Additionally, the relationship between landowner attributes and post-disaster housing reconstruction is analyzed.