When a disaster has occurred, persons responsible for emergency disaster control measures must endeavor to provide shelter without delay as provided for by laws and regulations or under a disaster management plan, ascertain information on the number of evacuees, the living environment at the shelter, and other conditions of the operation of the shelter, and take necessary measures for preparing the living environment of disaster victims staying at the shelter, such as ensuring the necessary safety and good habitability of the shelter, distributing food, clothes, medicine, and other goods related to daily living at the shelter, providing health and medical services and welfare services, and providing information.
In ascertaining and providing the information under the preceding paragraph, persons responsible for emergency disaster control measures must endeavor to utilize information and communications technology and other advanced technologies.
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disastermachine translation
「災害」
Damage caused by a storm, tornado, heavy rain or snow, flood, slope failure, debris flow, storm surge, earthquake, tsunami, soil liquefaction, volcanic eruption, landslide or other abnormal natural phenomenon, or by a large fire or explosion or another cause that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as causing damage on a similar scale.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
disaster management plans
「防災計画」
The basic disaster management plan, the disaster management operation plans and the area disaster management plans.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (vii)· applies throughout the law
sheltermachine translation
「避難所」
A facility where residents and others who have left their homes to evacuate stay for as long as they need to, or where affected residents who cannot find a place to live and other disaster victims stay temporarily.
Defined inArticle 33-2, paragraph (1), item (i)
persons responsible for emergency disaster control measures
「災害応急対策責任者」
The heads of designated administrative organs and designated local administrative organs, the heads and other executive organs of local governments, designated public corporations and designated local public corporations, public organizations, and the managers of facilities important for disaster management, as the bodies responsible for emergency disaster control measures.
Short name set inArticle 51, paragraph (1)