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Japan ready to assist Vietnam in natural disaster preparedness

A delegation of the General Department of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development had a working visit to Japan from November 30 – December 4 to learn the host country’s experiences in coping with super Typhoon Hagibis, especially in the dyke management.
Japan ready to assist Vietnam in natural disaster preparedness ảnh 1The working session between the delegation of the General Department of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and JICA experts (Photo: VNA)

Tokyo (VNA) - A delegation of the GeneralDepartment of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control under the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development had a working visit to Japan from November 30– December 4 to learn the host country’s experiences in coping with superTyphoon Hagibis, especially in the dyke management.

While in Japan, the delegation made a fact-finding tour ofthe submerged area in Tokyo and the prefectures of Nagano and Ibaraki. Besides,members of the delegation also had a working session with leading officials ofthe Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on the matter.

During the working sessions, JICA leading officials briefedtheir guests on the devastation of the storm, stressing that it has helped pushup new concepts on the preparedness against natural disasters in Japan.

They affirmed that JICA is ready to assist Vietnam in copingnatural disasters in the context that climate change is happening in a verycomplicated way.

For his part, Deputy Director of the general department VuXuan Thanh expressed deep sympathies to the Japanese people on the lossescaused by the storm, and spoke highly of the work by Japanese authorities. Healso expressed his hope that the Japanese government in general and the JICAwill help Vietnam build scenarios to cope with flooding, flash flood andlandslide in Vietnam’s northern mountainous areas, as well as establish automaticwatching system along its rivers.

Super Typhoon Hagibis unleashed on Japan’s coast on October12, with the highest rainfall recorded in the history in many areas of thecountry. Latest statistics by the Japanese government show that it killed 91people, made four others missing, damaged nearly 10,000 houses and submerged nearly84,400 others./.
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