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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.