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	Japan: Japan to check tunnels after fatal collapse
	Japan ordered a nationwide inspection of 49 tunnels after the collapse of a highway tunnel near Mt. Fuji killed nine people and crushed cars with almost 400 tons of concrete in the nation's worst tunnel disaster in 16 years. The Ministry of Transport ordered the inspections to be conducted by 5 p.m. on Dec. 12, according to a statement on the ministry's website. About 270 concrete slabs, each weighing 1.4 tons, fell from the ceiling of the Sasago tunnel on the Chuo expressway about 85 kilometres west of Tokyo early Sunday morning. Japan's highway network includes more than 1,500 tunnels, with a quarter of them more than 30 years old, accord
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	Japan: Ambulance Dispatch Cases to Soar
	Tokyo: The number of ambulance dispatches is expected to peak at around 6.20 million in 2023, continuing to climb from the record high of 5.80 million seen last year, a projection by the Fire and Disaster Management Agency showed. Ambulance dispatches will rise in line with the increasing number of elderly people taken to hospitals for treatment of acute diseases and injuries resulting from falls, among other reasons, according to the projection released on April 8, Monday by the agency. With the rise in dispatches, it is taking longer for ambulances to arrive and there could be further loss of life due to the delays.
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	Japan: Gov. Recommends Against Building Hospital Ship; Better to Re-use Older Vessels to Provide Emergency Medical Care
	A study report by the Cabinet Office says that Japan does not need to own a hospital ship and instead just use existing commercial or Japan Coast Guard ships to provide emergency medical care in case of disasters and emergencies. It will cost the government 140 to 350 million dollars to build and 9 to 25 million dollars to maintain. A group of nonpartisan lawmakers “demanded” that Japan have its own hospital ship, especially after the severe damage suffered by medical facilities in northeastern coastal areas during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disasters. The report recommends that instead of purchasing a hospital shi
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	Japan: Fukushima Closes 2 Parking Lots for Emergency Decontamination Work
	FUKUSHIMA—Two parking lots in the city of Fukushima were declared off-limits to the public on May 7 after high concentrations of radioactive cesium were detected in the exposed soil there. Local authorities shut down the parking lots for emergency decontamination operations after a nonprofit organization found a maximum of 430,000 Becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium during a survey conducted between April 29-May 2 at the behest of local residents.
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	Japan: Disaster Prevention Manual to be Distributed Free-of-charge to Children Worldwide
	Hoping to educate children around the world about how to protect themselves during natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunami and landslides, researcher Megumi Sugimoto has designed a free English-language handbook to be distributed worldwide via the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Sugimoto, who works with the Public Works Research Institute/Global Centre of Excellence for Water Hazard and Risk Management in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, spent several years teaching residents in Indonesia about disaster prevention after the country was hit by a massive tsunami in 2004.
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Japan: Japan to check tunnels after fatal collapse

Japan: Ambulance Dispatch Cases to Soar

Japan: Gov. Recommends Against Building Hospital Ship; Better to Re-use Older Vessels to Provide Emergency Medical Care

Japan: Fukushima Closes 2 Parking Lots for Emergency Decontamination Work

Japan: Disaster Prevention Manual to be Distributed Free-of-charge to Children Worldwide

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