resistant reservoirs, portable water pumps and emergency supply storage under the Large-Scale Earthquake Fire Defence Facilities Grant Project, built-up areas of wooden housing and the areas around refuge sites and evacuation routes in built-up parts of the metropolitan area and Central Japan stipulated in the Capital area Management Law and the Central Japan Development Law, were designated as areas where the damage from a major earthquake may be expected to be extremely severe. In June of 1978, the Large Scale Earthquake Countermeasures Act was enacted, and with the designation of areas under intensified measures against earthquake disaster earthquake preparations in the Tokai area were begun in earnest. In August of 1978, the Coordination Committee for Earthquake Prediction re-evaluated the areas of special observation.
As a result in 1979 four new areas were added to the designated areas, making a total of 6 areas to receive grants. The four new areas were:
・areas under intensified measures against earthquake disaster
・areas of special observation
・designated cities stipulated by Local Autonomy Law
・areas making emergency provision for evacuation facilities,
stipulated by the Active Volcano Countermeasures Act.
In this way, progress has been made in Earthquake Countermeasures Facilities, especially in the South Kanto area, the Tokai area and major cities.
The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of January 1995 was the worse disaster to hit Japan since World War II. Recently, there have been frequent occurrences of large earthquakes. As a result, the areas receiving grants from the Supplementary Budget of 1995 were
