PROCESS OF HOUSING REPAIR AND ROLE OF SPECIALIST OF HOUSES DAMAGED BY A DISASTER IN HILLY AND MOUNTAINOUS AREA: A case of Mushigame village in Yamakoshi in the Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake

It is said the Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake caused extensive damage to hilly and mountainous areas and broke traditional houses in 2004. However traditional houses are needed to investigate possibility to repair before their broken. In such circumstances, specialists have knowledge and techniquees about repairs worked, so victims choosed repairs for their housing reconstruction at Mushigame. Based on surveys, it find that broken houses can be repaired even if they have total collapse judgement and specialists work as a coodinator so they induce to repair with regional carpenters so on. From now on, we need to have some information about specialists.