Disaster Prevention Day in Japan

CHIBA, Japan - Police officers and firefighters participate in a rescue exercise in the city of Chiba on Sept. 1, 2013. The evacuation and rescue exercise was conducted on Disaster Prevention Day, the anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake in the Tokyo area in 1923.

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