First responders including police and fire fighters conducted a drill at a Tokyo subway station on Thursday, the first of its kind held at an actual transit facility.
Around 300 specialists responded to a hypothetical emergency involving sarin nerve gas at Hibiya Station, which is adjacent to the city’s central government district. They also conducted a simulated decontamination exercise.
The drill came ahead of the 20th anniversary, next March, of the Aum Shinrikyo cult’s 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway.
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