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On November 27, 2018, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held the second Ministerial Meeting on Emergency Inspection of Critical Infrastructure, at the Prime Minister’s Office.
 
During the meeting, the results of the emergency inspection of critical infrastructure and the measures in response to them were reported.
 
Based on the report presented at the meeting, the Prime Minister said,
 
“As disasters have been intensifying in recent years, we are strongly aware of the importance of and urgent need for promoting disaster prevention, disaster mitigation, and national resilience, in order to protect the lives of our citizens. To that end, for the sake of ensuring that critical infrastructure remain fully functional in the event of a disaster, we conducted an overall inspection of infrastructure that sustain the economy and the lives of citizens, such as facilities related to water supply and food supply along with power and transportation as well as those related to disaster responses such as hospitals, which serve as a key base during a disaster, and those that prevent floods and landslides, and have compiled the results today.
 
Based on the results of this overall inspection, we will put together measures that should be implemented with particular urgency and compile a three-year emergency response plan for disaster prevention, disaster mitigation, and building national resilience, which explicitly outline the targets, the measures, the project costs, and other details, by the end of the year. We will implement them in a focused manner over a three-year period, also including these measures as part of the Fundamental Plan for National Resilience. I ask that all ministers exert every effort to implement measures for building resilient hometowns that everyone can live safely in.”