The Basic Act designates certain public organizations to design their operational plans. For example, the Operational Plan for Disaster Prevention of the Ministry of Home Affairs/Fire Defence Agency clarifies their anti-disaster tasks and the criteria for the regional anti-disaster plans.
The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the revisions of the
Principal Law and the Basic Plan were followed by the reexamination of the MHA/AFD Task Plan on: making the literature as concrete, practical and easy to understand as possible;
dividing the contents into two parts: the principle measures common to all types of disasters and particular ones for specific cases;
emphasizing certain measures such as: reinforcement of the emergency fire defense rescue team system; urban planning better able to withstand disasters; fortification of the personal anti-disaster system; promotion of volunteer activities; creation of a data-base on disaster prevention, etc.;
guaranteeing information systems, especially: duplication of telecommunication lines (satellite communication, etc.) and diversification of means (audio-visual, multi-media, etc.); early notification of the jamming of emergency phone lines, and understanding of the scale of the disaster via audio-visual means; on-the-spot collection ofinformation;
clarifying the support system of the MHA/FDA: setting up the MHA/FDA Anti-Disaster Head Office (the MHA/FDA Earthquake Warning Head Office in the case of aproclamation of earthquake warning); criteria for assembling employees: 5+ degrees in Tokyo (excluding islands) and 6+ in other regions;
