This chapter offers a brief outline of the nature and extent of natural disasters that have affected Japan since the beginning of the 20th century, and examines what the Japanese authorities have actually done about disaster risk management, and whether this is known to potential tourists in order for them to undertake their own more realistic assessment of the likelihood of such a disaster while they are visiting.
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