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Many Health Care Facilities Unprepared for Tsunami-Related Disasters; 40% Without Evacuation Plan

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By Kotaro Yaginuma and Yuto Inoue / Japan News Staff Writers

16:26 JST, June 6, 2025

Despite concern over future earthquakes in places such as the Nankai Trough off Japan’s Pacific coast, health care facilities in tsunami disaster warning areas across the country have been slow to draw up plans to secure the safe evacuation of people, such as the elderly and hospital inpatients.

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