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On December 14, 2018, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held the ninth meeting of the National Resilience Promotion Headquarters and third Ministerial Meeting on Emergency Inspection of Critical Infrastructure, at the Prime Minister’s Office.
 
At the meeting, there was discussion on the draft Fundamental Plan for National Resilience and the draft three-year emergency response plan for disaster prevention, disaster mitigation, and building national resilience.
 
Based on the discussion at the meeting, the Prime Minister said,
 
“We will create a country that possesses strength and resilience, not giving in to disasters. We must continue on this path of national resilience as Japan’s grand plan for the long-term future. In particular, in recent years, since disasters have grown in intensity, disaster prevention, disaster mitigation, and building national resilience for the protection of the lives and property of the people have become important and urgent issues, and we must continue to advance these efforts swiftly.
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Today, we finalized the Fundamental Plan for National Resilience and the three-year emergency response plan for disaster prevention, disaster mitigation, and building national resilience, based on our experiences and lessons learned up to this point, as well as latest knowledge in these areas, including the findings of the overall inspection of infrastructure. We have included new policies to advance Japan’s national resilience strategically and steadily with a long-term view in the Fundamental Plan for National Resilience, which we have reviewed for the first time since its inception in 2014. Furthermore, in the three-year emergency response plan, which is part of the Fundamental Plan, we include 160 measures that need urgent implementation. The scale of those measures is expected to amount to around 7 trillion yen. We would like to finance those measures that need to be implemented swiftly in the first year, with the second supplementary budget of FY2018, and those afterwards utilizing the emergency and special measures for FY2019 and 2020 in response to the consumption tax increase.
 
Our efforts to build national resilience are entering a new stage of being accelerated and deepened. Based on the Fundamental Plan for National Resilience and the three-year emergency response plan for disaster prevention, disaster mitigation, and building national resilience that we finalized today, I would like each minister to work closely together with local governments and members of the private sector and exert every effort to create resilient hometowns in which anyone can live with peace of mind.”