TOKYO -- The Japanese government has created a department to help local authorities devise plans for evacuating residents from islands in the East China Sea during any military emergency in the region, Nikkei has learned.
The cabinet agency's situation response office formed the unit, which is expected to have roughly a dozen members by April.




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