Japan conducts quake drills across the nation

Japan conducts quake drills across the nation

KAWASAKI, Japan - Elementary school children learn how to use an automatic external defibrillator (AED) during an annual anti-earthquake drill in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, on Sept. 1, the 86th anniversary of the 1923 killer quake. Sept. 1 is designated as National Disaster Prevention Day, the anniversary of the magnitude 7.9 Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 that devastated the Tokyo metropolitan area.

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