Shigeo Tatsuki

Shigeo "Shig" Tatsuki is a professor in the sociology department at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Tatsuki teaches disaster sociology, and served as the president of the Institute of Social Safety Science in Japan in 2014 and 2015. He has conducted community-based participatory disaster research on long-term individual recovery and societal and community responses to people with functional needs after the 1995 Kobe Earthquake, 2001 Geiyo Earthquake in Hiroshima, 2004 Typhoon Tokage in Northern Hyogo, 2004 Niigata-Chuetsu Earthquake, 2007 Noto Peninsula Earthquake, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), and the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake. Based on these research findings, he has been actively involved in formulating recovery policies and programs, Geographic Information System mapping of people with disabilities, community-based initiatives to form neighborhood disaster response networks, and post-GEJE advocacy work for disaster risk reduction. As a member of the cabinet office committee for people with functional needs in disaster, he was involved in the cabinet office publications and revisions of evacuation and sheltering assistance guidelines for people with functional needs in times of disaster (2005, 2006, 2009, and 2019 to 2021). Tatsuki received the Charles E. Fritz Award for Career Achievements in the Social Science Disaster Area in 2018, and an award from the Ministry of State for Disaster Management for his contributions in 2020.