The purpose of this study is to analyze what kind of educational steps and support are necessary in order to effectively promote disaster management activities from the viewpoint of consumer education. We surveyed the present state and problems of consumers' awareness of disaster prevention, their disaster prevention activities and disaster prevention education. It becomes clear that the consumers' way of every-day decision making and behavior affects their decision making in the case of a calamity. It is concluded that the future education of disaster management needs to promote the consumers' proper understanding of disaster and its economic management.