Art.2 A prefectural area disaster prevention plan shall provide for the matters listed below: (2)plans by category of operations within the area of the prefecture: creation or improvement of disaster prevention establishments, investigation and research, education, drills and other preventive measures, collection and transmission of information, issuance and transmission of forecasts and alarms evacuation, fire fighting, flood prevention, rescue, sanitation, other emergency measures and rehabilitation efforts.

Art. 41. The portion bearing on disaster prevention in any plan for disaster prevention or related to disaster prevention may not in any way in conflict with the basic disaster prevention plan, any appropriate operational disaster prevention plan, or any prefectural area disaster prevention plan: (6)any evacuation facilities urgent development plan provided under art. 3 para. 1 of the Act concerning Development of Evacuation Facilities in Environs of Active Volcano...

Art. 42 (2)plans by category of operations within the area of the city, town or village: creation or improvement of disaster prevention establishments, investigation and research, education, drills and other preventive measures, collection and transmission of information, issuance and transmission of forecasts and alarms, evacuation...

Art. 50. Emergency measures for disaster shall be taken with respect to the matters listed below for the purpose of anticipating a disaster when there is danger of occurrence, or of conducting emergency rescue work when a disaster has occurred so as to prevent the spread of the disaster:(1)matters related to the issuance and transmission of alarm, recommendations or orders for evacuation.

Art. 52. The kind, nature, pattern or method of signal employed in the issuance and transmission of an alarm, warning, recommendations or orders for evacuation, shall be determined by the Office of the Prime Minister except where specified by other Act.

Art. 60. In the interest of protecting life and limb from disaster or of preventing the spread of a disaster when it has occurred or is believed imminent, the mayor of the city or town or the head of the village may, when deemed necessary, make recommendations to the local residents, temporary residents and others of an area concerned to evacuate...

Art.60 (2) When the mayor of a city or town or the head of a village makes recommendations or giveinstructions for evacuation under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, he may, if deemed necessary, specify a point to which evacuees will proceed.

Art.60(3) When the mayor of a city or town, or the head of a village has recommended or instructed evacuation for safety under the paragraph 1, or when he has specified the point to which the evacuees will proceed, he shall report promptly to the governor of the prefecture.

Art.60 (4) When there is no longer the need for evacuation, the mayor of the city or town or the head of the village shall immediately make public the fact. The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall apply to this case, where and as necessary. Quote 1Art. 61. In cases provided for under the first paragraph of the preceding article, when the mayor of the city or town or the head of the village is found unable to order evacuation for safety under said paragraph, or when there has been a request from the mayor or the head, the police or maritime safety officials may order the evacuation for the safety of the residents, temporary residents or other persons in an area for which evacuation is deemed necessary. Quote 12. When the police or maritime safety officials have ordered evacuation for safety under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, they shall report this fact immediately to the mayor of the city or town or the head of the village.