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Hokkaido Bureau
Disaster Prevention

  In Hokkaido, frequent disasters have occurred in recent years caused by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Usu, the offshore earthquake near Mt. Tokachi, typhoon No. 10 in 2003, typhoon No. 18 in 2004, etc.
  In order to prevent damage caused by such disasters, though the Hokkaido Development Bureau takes the lead and cooperates with the organizations concerned disaster measures to advance are:
  ·  Sharing disaster prevention information.
  ·  Developing a disaster prevention base.
  ·  Improving local disaster prevention capability.
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