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Author(s): Hayato Jinno

Efforts made to allow evacuees to bring their pets along to safety

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Since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami struck the Tohoku region in 2011, the government has encouraged people to evacuate with their pets to shelters.

It aims to reduce the number of people who hesitate to evacuate and those who choose to stay in their cars because of their pets, as well as preventing escaped pets from becoming wild.

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Kurume city in Fukuoka Prefecture, which had suffered flooding for four consecutive years since 2018, established a special facility within a city theme park for evacuees and their pets to stay in the same space in 2021.

This was in response to requests from citizens and was the first such facility in Kyushu. Pet owners stay in tents with their animals, which are housed in cages.

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Themes Human mobility
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