October 18, 2019

Anna Murray 

On Oct. 15th, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to take action on protecting homeless people, after two men were turned away from a typhoon shelter building up for residents in Taito, eastern Tokyo.

Hagibis, the strongest typhoon over the decades hit Japan on Oct. 11th, killing nearly 70 people, causing about 20 people missing. Thousands of households were flooded, destroyed or power cut.

“Shelters are supposed to be set up for the purpose of protecting lives of affected people. It is desirable to accept all affected people in shelters,” Abe stated that he would take steps to prohibit similar incidents. Concerned about the lasting effects of the storm, the Japanese government was arranging to fund from the 2019 special reserve budget.

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