590,000 take part in disaster response drills nationwide

Monday 01st September, 10:37 AM JST

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fatloser at 12:11 PM JST - 1st September

Nice clean and well rehearsed drills!!! Everything works and everyone gets home on time for dinner!
TheNewZen at 12:17 PM JST - 1st September

Any different from drills done overseas? Didn't think so.

Acolyte: "I really must respectfully protest, Your Reverence. We have practiced for just such an emergency as--" Lu-Tze: "Yeah, I know all about practicing procedures for emergencies. And there's always something missing." Acolyte: "Ridiculous! We take great pains to--" Lu-Tze: "You always leave out the damn emergency."

True Words.
rajakumar at 12:22 PM JST - 1st September

Way to go tokyo and 590,000 disaster response team.
taiko666 at 12:47 PM JST - 1st September

I was woken by a loud 'bing bong' from the local speaker-on-a-pole. We were asked politely, in Japanese and English, to go to our local assembly area (a children's playground.) I popped my head out of the window and saw that it remained deserted except for a woman with a clipboard and a derelict asleep on a bench. But at least it prompted me to check my earthquake supplies...
TheNewZen at 12:55 PM JST - 1st September

I recently restocked my survival packs, Food was getting close to the expiration-date similar for the water. Batteries also needed replacing.

I ate the old rations and must say they are actually quiet tasty and have quiet a selections of flavours.

We also had the "bing-bong" message a bit ago.

The drills are good but should be held more often, said the drills we did at the office were even more useless.
GeorgeRoper at 12:59 PM JST - 1st September

TheNewZen; What you need a survival pack for mate? You don`t think there is gonna be a nuclear war or somethink do you?

Why have disaster drills, nothing is the same in reality, same as fire drills at school. If there was a real fire everyone would leg and bundle out the school innit.
TheNewZen at 01:06 PM JST - 1st September

I got the packs (recommended 3 days of supplies) just in case, don't want the family going short if something bad happens.
some14some at 02:24 PM JST - 1st September

nothing but warming up exercise before winter.
smithinjapan at 04:52 PM JST - 1st September

GeorgeRoper: It's recommended you keep some kind of supplies in a bag in case of an emergency (ie. a massive earthquake), and that you store said bag in a logical place. Granted, if it's the Big One and your house topples it's unlikely your going to be able to get said bag/supplies, if you're even home and survive, but it's better than nothing.

I've got one, and I too need to toss the water that's been in there for 3 years and pick up some new batteries, etc.
TheNewZen at 06:28 PM JST - 1st September

GeorgeRoper.

Bassically the bags are there till you can get goverment aid/assistance. If you do a lot of camping /hiking than you already got most of the stuff.

Just a few ltrs of water, food-packs to last 3 days(mine you can prepare with just a bit of water and no heat), alu-blanket, torches/lightsticks, radio(dynamo), disposable toilet, First Aid kit, Toilet-paper/Tissues(White Gold/most forget that one) and a few other knick-knacks.

Mine are in backpacks stored in the genkan, so they can be grabbed when exiting. Our evacutaion area is in a school 5 min walk from the apartment, but others are outdoors in Parks, etc.
Taka313 at 10:16 PM JST - 1st September

My son got to see Junichiro Koizumi at the disaster drill here in Yokosuka. He thought that was pretty cool.

Taka
GeorgeRoper at 11:10 PM JST - 2nd September

Oh i see now. We don`t need emergency packs in London.

We don`t have big diasters and stuff like that.

strewth, it must be scary to know your haouse could fall down because of an earthquake at any time.

Does the drills do any good, or is it all for show, like the Notting Hill carnival?