On December 24th, 2020, the Cabinet Office announced, “A Paradigm for the Evacuation of Elderly People – Based on the Experience of Typhoon Hagibis in 2019 (Final summary)”. Based on the lessons learned from the experience of Typhoon Hagibis, the Cabinet Office encourages local governments to take measures to ensure effective and efficient evacuation of the elderly and persons with disabilities, such as the introduction of a list of people requiring evacuation assistance and the promotion of district disaster prevention plans, etc. The Office has been considering this issue through the establishment of two working groups, both based on the Hagibis experience: “Sub-working group to promote evacuation information and open area evacuation" and "Sub-working group to improve evacuation of the elderly, etc." This announcement was created by the latter group.
The following noteworthy points are contained in the announcement.
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