Japan Drills Response to Quakes, Missiles on Annual Disaster Day

TOKYO, Japan -Sept. 1: Japan carried out disaster preparedness drills on Friday, dealing with mock earthquakes and other threats just days after its emergency warning system was used for real during North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile over the country. Disaster Prevention Day falls each year on the anniversary of a magnitude-7.9 earthquake that hit Tokyo and the surrounding region in 1923, killing more than 105,000 people. The central government's exercise on Friday was based on the scenario of a magnitude-7.3 quake occurring directly under the capital. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called his entire Cabinet to a meeting at the government's emergency disaster headquarters and held a press conference based on that scenario. Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department practiced closing roads designated as special emergency vehicle corridors. The department's traffic regulation division said the drill was the biggest yet of its kind, and included part of a highway for the first time.
TOKYO, Japan -Sept. 1: Japan carried out disaster preparedness drills on Friday, dealing with mock earthquakes and other threats just days after its emergency warning system was used for real during North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile over the country. Disaster Prevention Day falls each year on the anniversary of a magnitude-7.9 earthquake that hit Tokyo and the surrounding region in 1923, killing more than 105,000 people. The central government's exercise on Friday was based on the scenario of a magnitude-7.3 quake occurring directly under the capital. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called his entire Cabinet to a meeting at the government's emergency disaster headquarters and held a press conference based on that scenario. Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department practiced closing roads designated as special emergency vehicle corridors. The department's traffic regulation division said the drill was the biggest yet of its kind, and included part of a highway for the first time.
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