JAPAN HOSTS DISASTER DAY WITH MAJOR DRILL PARTICIPATION (490 hits)
YOUR WORLD NEWS First Day of September Year 2014 Tokyo, Japan
A paramount participation in the Nation of Japan took a practice disaster drill in holding it's Disaster Day on September 01, 2014. At least 2.35 million people in Japan were part of the service drill to help save lives in the event of a major catastrophe. Drills included dry runs of evacuations, and medical procedures and tips on what to do in case disaster strikes at any time. The disaster drill day is hosted every September 01 by the government of Japan. This year's recent disaster was presented with recent mudslides that destroyed a township and took the lives of at least 72 people. The country is known to be disaster prone as earthquakes and the terrible approach of tsunami are highly likely. The dry run condition today was an imaginary 7.2 earthquake. Practice awareness of drills gives better response and interactions to the citizens safety for better recovery and reaction movement if; or when such high raking alert disasters that may come.