Japan Govt to Survey Stockpiles at Designated Shelters
11:32 JST, October 7, 2024
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Japan’s Cabinet Office will conduct as early as this fiscal year a survey on stockpiles at facilities around the country that are designated to be used as temporary shelters in times of disasters.
This will be the first survey covering municipalities regarding stockpiling of goods at evacuation facilities.
After people affected by a powerful earthquake that hit the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, in January faced a lack of relief supplies, the central government agency decided to conduct a survey on stockpiles as well as on the deployment of air conditioners, emergency power generators and gas facilities at designated shelters.
The survey is expected to cover stocks of food, blankets, baby formula, paper diapers for infants and adults, portable toilets, toilet paper and sanitary products, informed sources said. Cardboard beds and partitions, for which speedy deployment was difficult in the January disaster, will be added to the survey list, according to the sources.
Through a system to share information with local governments on relief supplies in the event of disasters, the central government will check whether the amounts of goods specified in local disaster management plans are secured. The survey will also cover goods kept at warehouses.
The number of designated shelters stood at 82,911 around the country as of Oct. 1, 2023.
Based on the results of the survey, the Cabinet Office will urge municipalities with insufficient stockpiles to redouble efforts to secure necessary amounts while calling on residents to voluntarily stockpile emergency goods.
"Politics" POPULAR ARTICLE
-
Ishiba: Asian NATO Must Consider Introduction of N-Weapons, Japan-U.S. Treaty Should Be Pact Between ‘Ordinary Nations’
-
Japan Scrambles Fighter Aircraft After Russia Violates Airspace
-
Shigeru Ishiba Elected Japan LDP President; Poised to be New Prime Minister
-
LDP Presidential Vote Could Go to Runoff, Surveys Suggest; Overall Tally Tips Toward Takaichi, Ishiba
-
Sanae Takaichi, Shigeru Ishiba, Shinjiro Koizumi Fight to Reach Runoff in LDP Presidential Race; Ballots Set to Start Arriving
JN ACCESS RANKING
- Philippines Steps Up Defense of Northernmost Province with Eye on Possible Contingency Involving Taiwan
- Harris Widens Lead over Trump to 47%-40%, Reuters/Ipsos Poll Finds
- Typhoon Bebinca Could Approach Southern Japan In Days; Heavy Storms Expected from Saturday (Update 1)
- Japan-S. Korea Exchange Festival Held in Seoul
- Mooncake Sales in China Frosty Ahead of Fall Holidays, as Sluggish Economy and Govt Rules Take Their Toll