TOKYO, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) — The Japanese authorities is contemplating utilizing submit workplaces to stock up on emergency provides, akin to meals, water and bedding for supply to evacuation areas within the occasion of disasters, native media reported.
Under the plan, native governments will use submit workplaces as warehouses and retailer catastrophe aid provides in empty areas, and have their automobiles ship the provides to the place they’re wanted, Kyodo News mentioned Sunday citing authorities sources.
At a time when Japan grapples with a shrinking inhabitants, the federal government is in search of to leverage the submit workplaces’ nationwide supply community, which reaches sparsely populated areas to keep up companies for residents, mentioned the report.
Of some 24,000 submit workplaces within the nation, one in Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, bordering Tokyo, entered into an settlement with the native authorities in 2021 to make use of its supply community to move aid provides to evacuation facilities and different places.
The authorities plans to encourage the Sagamihara submit workplace from April this yr to share its data with different submit workplaces and municipalities which can be additionally aiming to enhance their catastrophe responses, in line with Kyodo News.
The cupboard can be contemplating having submit workplaces present details about residence standing to native governments to substantiate folks’s security within the occasion of a catastrophe, it added.