Japan Preparing to Create Disaster Management Agency
Tokyo, Dec. 29 (Jiji Press)--Japan is preparing to create a disaster management agency responsible for everything from disaster preparedness to reconstruction, learning from past disasters including the Jan. 1 Noto Peninsula earthquake.
Disaster-related deaths exceeded 220 in the 2016 quake disaster in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, and topped 240 in the Noto Peninsula temblor in central Japan.
The government plans to strengthen its crisis management system in preparation for possible huge disasters, such as a Nankai Trough megathrust quake off the country's Pacific coast and a temblor directly under the Tokyo metropolitan area.
"This is something I've been advocating for more than a decade, so I have strong feelings about it," Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said of the envisaged agency.
His administration plans to increase the budget and staffing at the existing Cabinet Office division for disaster management, aiming to create a ministerial post to serve as a command for disaster response.
(2024/12/29-11:00)
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