National › 590,000 take part in disaster response drills nationwide

Monday 01st September, 10:37 AM JST TOKYO — The government held a nationwide disaster response drill Monday, with 590,000 people from 30 of Japan’s 47 prefectures taking part under the assumption that a major quake had taken place in the morning. This year’s drill comes after a series of disasters within and outside of Japan including powerful quakes in Japan’s Iwate and Miyagi prefectures in June and China’s... [read full story]