U.N. anti-disaster rep urges Japan's greater contribution

U.N. anti-disaster rep urges Japan's greater contribution

Margareta Wahlstrom, the U.N. chief's special representative for disaster risk reduction, calls on Japan to step up the provision of disaster management know-how to other countries during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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