With tensions around Taiwan rising and North Korea firing missiles at a blistering pace, lawmakers in neighboring Japan are pushing for a rollout of shelters where its residents can take refuge in the event of an attack.
A bill laying out a schedule for shelter provision could be passed as soon as the fiscal year beginning next April, Keiji Furuya, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker and former minister for national resilience, said in an interview last week.
¡°Japan hasn¡¯t been involved in a war for 77 years, but what we¡¯ve taken for granted since then no longer holds true,¡± said Furuya, co-leader of a lawmakers group pushing for shelter provision. ¡°The world has changed a lot.¡±
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