U.N. panel adopts Japan-led resolution to raise tsunami awareness

U.N. panel adopts Japan-led resolution to raise tsunami awareness

Japan's U.N. Ambassador Motohide Yoshikawa (C) makes comments at a U.N. General Assembly committee in New York, which adopted on Dec. 4, 2015, a resolution declaring Nov. 5 as World Tsunami Awareness Day to highlight the dangers posed by the killer waves ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake in March. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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