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The Yomiuri Shimbun writes in an opinion piece that Japan should reexamine its preparedness against natural disasters as their occurrence is unpredictable. According to the article, presuming a huge quake occurred under the metropolitan area, a maximum of 23,000 deaths and about 120,000 injuries are projected...
Japan is to highlight the importance of disaster education at a UN conference to be held in Sendai in March, according to The Yomiuri Shimbun. At the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction Japan will feature best practices of disaster education that are being conducted around the country...
At a press conference held after Saturday’s eruption at Mt. Ontake, the Japan Meteorological Agency admitted failing to forecast the latest eruption. 'We can’t predict every eruption,' said the head of the agency’s volcanology section to the Yomiuri Shimbun...
'Thanks to the improvement and expansion of cyclone shelters, the number of victims has fallen,' Masaaki Osashi, head of Japan CSO Coalition for 2015 WCDRR said. 'But with the water level of tidal waves rising, the intensity of water-related disasters, determined by rainfall and wind strength, has increased'...
Only structures meeting the current quake-resistance requirements are unlikely to collapse even in the event of a quake with an intensity of 7, which calls on the government to make social infrastructure and buildings resistant to earthquakes...
'To minimize damage from such earthquakes, we need to learn various lessons from the Hanshin earthquake and the March 11 disaster. We should continue reforming our disaster prevention schemes, bearing in mind that things beyond our expectation do occur'...
A Daily Yomiuri editorial reminds that Sept. 1 is designated Disaster Prevention Day in Japan: local governments learn from experience by conducting drills and urges utilities, such as electric power companies, to make efforts to boost their preparedness for a major earthquake or tsunami...
According to a survey by The Yomiuri Shimbun, 44 prefectures and 15 ordinance-designated large cities are re-evaluating their disaster preparedness and response plans further to the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami...
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