Hokkaido holds disaster drill on 1st anniv. of deadly quake

Hundreds of thousands of people in Hokkaido joined a wide-scale disaster drill Friday as Japan's northernmost main island marked the first anniversary of a powerful earthquake which claimed 44 lives.In the exercise based on a scenario that a large-scale quake rocked the area at 10 a.m., staff at local governments, students and employees of private companies learned how to protect themselves at workplace or schools.The magnitude 6.7 quake jolted Hokkaido in the early hours of Sept. 6, 2018, injuring 785 people and damaging thousands of homes. It also triggered Japan's first prefecture-wide b…READ FULL ARTICLE