As a way to demonstrate its commitment to the growing corporate and social requirements for business continuity plans (BCP), Kajima Corp., Japan's leading general contractor, conducted a large-scale anti-disaster drill on Aug. 30. It was conducted on the assumption that a magnitude 7.3 earthquake with the intensity of upper 6 on the Japanese scale (7 is the high), were to hit Tokyo at 9 a.m.

The drill was intended to train Kajima employees how to appropriately respond to a big quake immediately after its outbreak and on the following day and later, presuming that the road and railway traffic and communications networks in the Tokyo metropolitan area were to remain heavily disrupted.

Almost all the employees at the company's Tokyo head office, branch offices and business offices all over the country were mobilized to take part in various programs of the drill.