JAPAN and the WORLD Magazine JULY ISSUE 2015 #Issue 12 | Page 23

AFRICA-JAPAN
RESILIENCE
JAPAN’S NATIONAL
RESILIENCE STRATEGY
日本の国土強靭化計画
Chairman Miura giving a speech at the Japan Resilience Award ceremony
ジャパンレジリエンスアワード表彰式で挨拶をする三浦会長
A
fter the Second Abe Admi-nistration
was inaugurated at the end of
December 2012, Keiji Furuya was
appointed the first Minister of State
for Disaster Management, and the Advisory
Committee on National Resilience (Disaster
Prevention and Mitigation) was established
in March 2013 under his supervision. In
December 2013, the “Basic Act for National
Resilience Contributing to Preventing
and Mitigating Disasters for Developing
Resilience in the Lives of the Citizenry”
was approved by the government, and the
National Resilience Promotion Headquarters
(Director General: Prime Minister Abe)
was set up as an organization to deal with
related affairs. In June 2014, the government
simultaneously approved the “Fundamental
Plan for National Resilience” and the