They prepare for natural disasters with huge innovation in JapanFood vending machines have been put in place for those particularly at risk in akowhich provides free food and drink to residents of the port city during natural disasters, according to the British newspaper The Guardian Watchman.
The food vending machines are designed in such a way that food and drink, which would have been given for money, are freely available if the authorities issue a rain warning, or if the earthquake reaches a magnitude of five on Japanese earthquake size and residents need to evacuate.
Devices with 300 bottles of soft drinks and 150 rations of food, including nutritional supplements, are located near the evacuation shelters.
According to Earth Corp. , the machines are the first of their kind in Japan, which is not surprising, since one of the most seismically active countries in the world has been hit by typhoons causing floods and landslides in recent years.In this way, Japan is not preparing for hard times only by providing food: A vending machine with a radio transmitter has been installed in a park in Tokyo, which sends distress signals in the event of strong earthquakes and broadcasts vital information from a local radio station.
Japanese experts recently raised the probability of an “earthquake” in the next 20 years along the Nankai Trench south of Honshu Island from 50 percent to 60 percent, and over the next four decades to 90 percent.
