Paper:
Lessons Learnt from Communication for Disaster Preparedness: A Study on Six Survivors from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011
Md. Faiz Shah* and Parves Sultan**
*Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, North Jeddah 21589, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
**School of Business and Law, Central Queensland University, Building 19/3.40, Rockhampton, QLD. 4702, Australia
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