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Table of Contents
Reason behind Selection of Country and Data. 3
Summarized Findings and Discussion. 7
Suggestions for Precautions in Future. 7
Aim and Objectives
Natural Disasters:The main aim behind this data analysis is to analyse the trend of natural disasters in Japan during the last five years. The data analysis also focuses on the analysis of deaths, affected people and total monetary damage incurred by each type of disaster in these five years.
The specific objectives of this data analysis and report are as follows:
- To analyse the year by year trend of natural disasters in the Japan.
- To analyse the natural disasters and damage incurred due to those natural disasters by their types.
- To analyse and justify the trend of natural disasters and damage incurred over these five years.
Reason behind Selection of Country and Data
The reason behind selection of Japan for this study is that the Japan faces natural disasters frequently due to different reasons in different years. Therefore, it is important to analyse whether there is a decrease in damage done by theses natural disasters or not (Blaikie, Cannon, Davis and Wisner, 2014).
Data Collection
The data for natural disasters in Japan has been collected from an online source i.e. CRED natural disasters website (CRED, 2009). The data has been collected year by year and by the type of natural disaster so that it is possible to analyse the data from different aspects.
Data Analysis
The number of accidents caused by natural disasters in Japan is too high; there have been total of 41 accidents from 2010 till 2015. Each accident has resulted in monetary and/or non-monetary losses (deaths / injuries). The break-up of these 41 accidents with respect to year is shown in the graph below:
Figure 1 – Accidents (Year Wise)
The figure above clearly highlights that the occurrence of natural disasters was increasing from 2010 till 2014; it reached a maximum of 13 accidents in 2014 and then declined to 2 in the next year.
The decline is due to both the precautionary measures and natural factors as most of the natural disasters are uncontrollable by the human being (Miao and Popp, 2014). Further, the break-up of natural disasters by the type of disaster is shown in the figure below:
Figure 2 – Accidents (Types)
The figure above clearly highlights that most of the accidents during last five years were caused by storms; 27 out of 41 accidents were caused by storms. Remaining 14 accidents are divided into earthquake, extreme temperature, flood, landslide and volcanic activity.
There are more accidents due to temperature and storms which is due to altitude and geographical position of the Japan. The storms are not that common in the other parts of the world for the same reason i.e. geography (Matsubayashi, Sawada and Ueda, 2013).
It is important to analyse the deaths and number of total affected people in each year and due to different types of disasters. The following graph shows the details of deaths and affected people by year:
Figure 3 – Year Wise Deaths and Affected
As shown in the figure above, the number of deaths was highest in 2011 despite having more accidents in 2014. It is due to occurrence of big incidents in the year 2011 as there was a disastrous earthquake (CRED, 2015). Overall, the number of deaths and total affected people has declined 2013 onwards. The similar figures categorized by type of disaster are shown in the figure below:
Figure 4 – Disaster Type wise Deaths and Affected
As shown in the figure above, the earthquakes have caused more deaths and affected more people than any other type of disaster. Though there were only 4 earthquakes as compared to 27 storms but damage done by earthquakes is significantly higher. The figures above refer to damage in terms of human lives and health, there was also monetary damages as shown in the figure below:
Figure 5 – Total Monetary Damage by year
As highlighted by the figure above, there were no monetary losses in 2010 and as indicated by the loss of human lives, the monetary damage is also highest in…
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