The government on Friday decided to revise its basic plan that outlines measures to be taken over the next decade in preparation for a possible powerful earthquake occurring directly beneath the Tokyo metropolitan area.
In the revised plan, the government includes a target to reduce the number of deaths and the number of buildings destroyed or burned down due to an earthquake to at least half of the latest estimates, released in December 2025, of up to 18,000 and around 400,000, respectively.
It also prioritizes?installing seismic circuit breakers, which cut off power upon sensing tremors, at almost all households in Tokyo and nine prefectures in and around the Kanto region covered by the plan by fiscal 2035, up from 20% in fiscal 2024.
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