Tokyo police simulated what it would be like to work during a disaster Saturday by sending its 20,000 policemen to work on foot.
Saturday’s quake drill, held by the Metropolitan Police Department, was based on the assumption that transport systems in Tokyo’s 23 wards would be severely damaged in an earthquake of lower six on the Japanese earthquake intensity scale.
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