Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held the first meeting of the National Resilience Promotion Headquarters at the Prime Minister's Office.

During the meeting, policy guidelines on national resilience were decided.

The Prime Minister said in his opening address,

"With the occurrence of the Great East Japan Earthquake, and in the midst of anxiety over the occurrence of a metropolitan earthquake or Nankai Trough earthquake, national resilience is truly an issue of utmost urgency for Japan. There is a need to continue carrying out provident nation-building.
This has been worked on up until now as one of the important policy issues of the Abe administration. Taking the opportunity of the enactment of the basic act at this time, I would like to step up initiatives for national resilience.
To that end, I request that the Cabinet work together, with this National Resilience Promotion Headquarters as a control tower, so that a vulnerability assessment can be swiftly completed for large-scale natural disasters and other issues based on the basic act, and so we can establish a basic plan for national resilience at an early date.
In addition, up until that time, I would like to ask that everyone advance initiatives based on the policy guidelines on national resilience to be decided upon today, and continue to promote them within next year's budget as well."