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Lying on one of the world’s most seismologically active areas, Japan has been affected by frequent natural disasters. In fact, many lessons have been learned after each occurrence of a horrible event from the ancient times up to the present, which have been implemented in order to avoid and/or reduce the degree to which the country is affected by such disasters. Yet, until the recent years, these lessons tended to be diffused within local communities only and thus remained within a narrow and closed society. However, the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, one of the most serious catastrophes of the last 1000 years, has gradually been changing this tendency and has prompted a wide variety of new learning styles. One of the most conspicuous features of this is the enhancement of mutual learning at various levels and through different methods between those who were the most seriously affected and those who, no matter how near or far from the affected area they live, are worried about future disasters of this kind which have been predicted. Thus the recent disaster has had positive impacts on learning about disaster prevention among the nationwide population, generating a variety of new approaches. This paper intends to illustrate some good examples of new trends in learning about disaster prevention and indicate how the nation has been transferring the experience of catastrophes into effective learning.

New Trends in Learning about Disaster Prevention: Some Lessons from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake