Kanamoto Group's Response to Recent Natural Disasters

Response to successive natural disasters

In the region stricken by the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster, projects such as construction of public housing for disaster-affected individuals and residential land development for relocation to higher ground are proceeding steadily, and the Reconstruction Agency expects all such works to be generally completed during 2019. The percentage of Reconstruction Roads and Reconstruction Support Roads opened to traffic will reach approximately 65% by February 2019, while repair works on the JR Jouban Line interval as well, which has been closed for a prolonged period, is moving forward with the goal of restoring service over the entire line at the end of March 2020.
The Kanamoto Group has also responded with its full capabilities to the Kumamoto earthquakes that occurred in 2016 and to the typhoon and torrential rain disasters that struck Kagoshima and Hokkaido during 2016 and 2017.
An unprecedented number of natural disasters occurred throughout 2018 as well. Following the typhoons that successively made landfall across the Japanese archipelago in July, and after the Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake in September as well, which struck with a maximum seismic intensity of 7.0, the Kanamoto Group has responded to requests from each region by setting up task forces and providing the construction equipment and machine parts needed for restoration works.
Going forward as well, the Kanamoto Group will build an organization and marshal its full capabilities to provide continuous support. This will include measures to strengthen cooperation among the group’s firms and centralized pre-placement of management resources.