TOKYO, Japan –Monitoring a barrage of data from thousands of different monitoring stations scattered across the country, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)keeps real time tabs on any potential natural disaster occurring within Japan. From potential developing storms across the oceans, to seismic activities indicating potential earthquakes to weather conditions that may bring torrential rains, the state-of-the-art […]
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Japan pours out over $7-M for Palau’s disaster risk reduction projects
Japan, through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), had allocated millions of dollars to enhance disaster risk reduction infrastructures and projects of North Pacific island countries with Palau receiving a total of $7,500,000 from the grant. National Emergency Management Office (NEMO) Coordinator Waymine Towai, during the signing of the grant program yesterday, April 22, told […]