Disaster Prevention Day in Japan

CHIBA, Japan - A helicopter of the Self-Defense Forces takes off from the roof of the prime minister's office in Tokyo, carrying Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for an inspection of an evacuation and rescue exercise in the city of Chiba on Sept. 1, 2013. The exercise was conducted on Disaster Prevention Day, the anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake in the Tokyo area in 1923.

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