Household and Community Disaster Preparedness in Japanese Provincial City: A Population-Based Household Survey
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Anthropology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2163-9353,2163-9361
DOI: 10.4236/aa.2014.42010