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2020 Tokyo Olympics sailing venue would be an evacuation nightmare if a tsunami struck, says Japanese disaster expert

Published on: Tuesday 16 April 2019

2020 Tokyo Olympics sailing venue would be an evacuation nightmare if a tsunami struck, says Japanese disaster expert Athletes taking part in sailing races during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and thousands of spectators could be killed or injured if an offshore earthquake triggered a tsunami that hits the venue, according to one of Japan’s foremost crisis management experts. Nobuaki Shimizu, a professor at Aichi Prefectural


News source: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/2020-tokyo-olympics-sailing-venue-073929040.html

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