with time. So the government and local public bodies are working together to establish earthquake preparation facilities.
It is important for the individual to prepare for a large-scale earthquake in his daily life, acquiring the correct knowledge for disaster prevention and self-confidence regarding earthquakes; because it is not disaster-prevention organizations but each individual resident who plays the leading part in disaster prevention.
Local public bodies will continue to be guided and recommended to carry out actively anti disaster drills and various education projects positively to promote disaster-prevention consciousness on Disaster Prevention Day in September and Disaster Prevention Volunteer Day in January, because it is necessary for each resident and disaster prevention organization to keep alive the memory of the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake disaster and to work together to promote comprehensive earthquake preparations.
