When implementing inclusive natural disaster management, disaggregating gender-sensitive data from disasters becomes a global challenge. For example, there is a lack of gender-disaggregated disaster records in Japan, where the OECD Gender Gap Index is low. After Japan suffered tremendous damage from the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), their government advocated for the preservation of disaster records to verify and pass them on for scientific purposes. This study aims to understand the trends that exist in these disaster archives by examining how the GEJE records recorded gender-sensitive manners. The National Women’s Education Center (NWEC) Women’s Archive for Disaster Relief is an example of an archive that serves as a supplement to these records, showing that many women suffered in evacuation centres after the GEJE. These records are thorough, but are not linked to mainstream archives, making it challenging to find gendered disaster records. To develop plans to mitigate disasters from an inclusive perspective, it is necessary to establish a mainstream disaster archive that takes gender differences into account.