Nearly 40 percent of the 56 elementary and junior high schools in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, hardest hit by the March 11 disaster, did not specify evacuation areas in their disaster-prevention manuals, an Asahi Shimbun survey found.
Many tsunami-hit schools' evacuation guidelines inadequate
Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, where 74 children died or went missing in the March 11 tsunami. The photo was taken March 29. (Shinichi Iizuka)
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