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Residential area inundated a day after March 11 tsunami

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 12, 2011 shows a residential area in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, inundated a day after the March 11 tsunami. A panel of the Central Disaster Prevention Council compiled a final report on Sept. 28, 2011 on measures to cope with earthquakes and tsunami based on lessons learned from the tragedy.

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Panel calls for legal revisions for disaster prevention

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiaki Kawata (R), a professor at Kansai University who heads a panel of the Central Disaster Prevention Council, hands a report to Tatsuo Hirano, disaster management minister, in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2011. In the report, the panel calls for reviewing disaster-related laws to maintain the functions of local governments and smooth long-distance evacuations if a massive natural disaster occurs.

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Gov't panel calls for measures against worst-case tsunami

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiaki Kawata, professor at Kansai University, who heads a panel under the Central Disaster Prevention Council, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on June 26, 2011. The government's antidisaster panel urged authorities to prepare for worst-case tsunami in an interim report following the March 11 disaster.

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263 municipalities may be affected by Tokai quake: panel

NAGOYA, Japan - More than 30 additional municipalities, including Nagoya (in file photo) may be affected in the event of a massive quake in the Tokai region in central Japan, expanding the state-designated areas requiring special caution to 263 municipalities in eight prefectures, the government's Central Disaster Prevention Council said after a meeting in Tokyo on April 9.

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PM Abe attends disaster prevention panel meeting

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses a meeting of the Central Disaster Prevention Council in Tokyo on Feb. 16, 2016. The panel decided to require local governments in areas around 49 volcanoes in Japan to compile evacuation and other emergency plans to secure the safety of residents and tourists. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Residential area inundated a day after March 11 tsunami

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 12, 2011 shows a residential area in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, inundated a day after the March 11 tsunami. A panel of the Central Disaster Prevention Council compiled a final report on Sept. 28, 2011 on measures to cope with earthquakes and tsunami based on lessons learned from the tragedy. (Kyodo)

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Panel calls for legal revisions for disaster prevention

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiaki Kawata (R), a professor at Kansai University who heads a panel of the Central Disaster Prevention Council, hands a report to Tatsuo Hirano, disaster management minister, in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2011. In the report, the panel calls for reviewing disaster-related laws to maintain the functions of local governments and smooth long-distance evacuations if a massive natural disaster occurs. (Kyodo)

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Gov't panel calls for measures against worst-case tsunami

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiaki Kawata, professor at Kansai University, who heads a panel under the Central Disaster Prevention Council, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on June 26, 2011. The government's antidisaster panel urged authorities to prepare for worst-case tsunami in an interim report following the March 11 disaster. (Kyodo)

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Japanese government's central disaster prevention council

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks at a meeting of the government's central disaster prevention council in Tokyo on May 25, 2021.

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Japanese government's central disaster prevention council

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (front) speaks at a meeting of the government's central disaster prevention council in Tokyo on May 25, 2021.

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Meeting of Central Disaster Prevention Council

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (2nd from L) addresses a meeting of the Central Disaster Prevention Council in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2017. The council held the meeting to prepare for a massive earthquake to be triggered by a seismic event in the Nankai Trough. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Central Disaster Prevention Council panel meets in Tokyo

Members of a Central Disaster Prevention Council panel discuss on Nov. 1, 2016, in Tokyo if it is possible to foresee the occurrence of a massive earthquake in the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan. They reaffirmed the 2013 expertise that it will be difficult to accurately predict. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo