Gov't to review 40-yr-old quake countermeasure law

Gov't to review 40-yr-old quake countermeasure law

Taro Kono, minister of state for disaster management, attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 28, 2016, to announce a government panel will start discussing how to review a nearly 40-year-old earthquake countermeasures law to deal with the increasing probability of massive earthquakes hitting wider regions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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