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Prime Minister’s instruction
at the sixth meeting of Emergency Headquarters for Response to Disaster

Sunday, March 12 at 09:30pm, 2011
[Provisional Translation]
JAPANESE


In order to vigorously push forward lifesaving, you should

1. attempt to enhance wide-area support system, such as proactively deploying troops of Self-Defense Force into rescue operations especially for those who are isolated, and

2. tackle building up support for such local authorities whose administrative functions are lost.