Demand for measures addressing major earthquakes, floods, landslides and aging infrastructure

「In response to the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake, a temporary office was opened in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, in late January to support recovery and reconstruction in the affected areas.」

「Flooding and landslides attributable to climate change are increasing in locations around the world.」

「Typhoon No. 19 caused levee breaches at 140 locations on 71 rivers in 7 prefectures, highlighting the vulnerability of earth embankments. Major flooding in the Chikuma River basin in Nagano Prefecture and the Abukuma River basins in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures had a serious impact on the economy and residents' lives, while landslides occurred at 962 locations in 20 prefectures.」

「In recent years in particular, major damage from flooding and storm surges caused by typhoons and torrential rain attributable to climate change has occurred repeatedly, threatening the lives of the public and the economy that form the foundation of the nation. In addition, while Nankai Trough and Tokyo metropolitan inland earthquakes remain imminent, inland earthquakes occurred in Hokkaido and elsewhere, causing extensive damage.」

「In Japan, natural disasters including flooding and storm surges caused by torrential rain and typhoons, as well as earthquakes, occurred frequently across the country, creating a need for fundamental and urgent measures. In December 2018, the Cabinet approved a three-year emergency program for national resilience worth approximately ¥7 trillion, and in February the second supplementary budget for fiscal 2018 was enacted.」

「In Japan, particularly in 2018, natural disasters occurred frequently across the country, including flooding and storm-surge damage caused by the heavy rains in western Japan in July and Typhoon No. 21 in September, as well as earthquake damage from events centered in northern Osaka Prefecture in June and the central and eastern Iburi region of Hokkaido in September. The damage has also become more severe and widespread, requiring fundamental and urgent measures.」

「During the fiscal year, the management environment surrounding the Group remained stable, with public works holding firm against a backdrop of growing demand for recovery and reconstruction projects following increasingly severe natural disasters, disaster-prevention and disaster-mitigation projects in preparation for imminent major earthquakes, and the renewal and reinforcement of deteriorated social infrastructure.」

「During the first nine months of the fiscal year, the management environment surrounding the Group remained stable, with public works holding firm against a backdrop of growing demand for disaster-prevention and disaster-mitigation projects in preparation for imminent major earthquakes and frequent natural disasters, and for the renewal and reinforcement of deteriorated social infrastructure.」

「During the first six months of the fiscal year, the management environment surrounding the Group remained stable, with public works holding firm against a backdrop of growing demand for disaster-prevention and disaster-mitigation projects in preparation for increasingly severe natural disasters and imminent major earthquakes, and for the renewal and reinforcement of deteriorated social infrastructure.」

「During the first three months of the fiscal year, the management environment surrounding the Group remained stable, with public works holding firm against a backdrop of growing demand for disaster-prevention and disaster-mitigation projects in preparation for increasingly severe natural disasters and imminent major earthquakes, and for the renewal and reinforcement of deteriorated social infrastructure.」

「During the fiscal year, the social environment surrounding the Group was characterized by the continued nationwide advancement, as important national policies, of disaster-prevention and disaster-mitigation businesses in preparation for increasingly severe natural disasters associated with climate change and imminent major earthquakes, as well as measures to extend the service lives of infrastructure developed since the high-growth period and address its deterioration.」

「During the first nine months of the fiscal year, the environment surrounding the Group was characterized by the continued nationwide advancement, as important national policies, of disaster-prevention and disaster-mitigation measures in preparation for increasingly severe weather disasters and imminent major earthquakes, and measures to address the deterioration of infrastructure developed since the high-growth period.」

「During the first six months of the fiscal year, the environment surrounding the Group was characterized by the continued nationwide advancement, as important national policies, of recovery and reconstruction projects following the Great East Japan Earthquake, advance disaster-preparedness measures in preparation for imminent major earthquakes and increasingly severe floods and landslides, and social-infrastructure development projects aimed at extending service lives.」

「As recovery and reconstruction projects following the Great East Japan Earthquake, development of social infrastructure in preparation for imminent major earthquakes and increasingly severe floods and landslides, and projects aimed at extending infrastructure service lives continue nationwide as important national policies.」

「Disaster-prevention-related projects aimed at advance disaster preparedness and measures to extend the service life of social infrastructure continued at a high level, in preparation for imminent major earthquakes and increasingly severe floods and landslides.」

「Disaster-prevention-related projects aimed at advance disaster preparedness and measures to extend the service life of social infrastructure continued at a high level, in preparation for imminent major earthquakes and increasingly severe floods and landslides.」