TOKYO, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Tokyo residents dashed for cover inside a train station on Monday as part of the first missile evacuation drill in the capital for years as Japan frets over the growing threat from nearby North Korea.
Japan has held more than a dozen such drills nationwide this year, though Monday's drill was the first in Tokyo since 2018.
The participants, wearing bibs, were divided into groups at a train station and a park.
When the test missile alert was sounded, police and disaster prevention officials with loudspeakers hurried the groups to designated shelter areas where they crouched down with their hands over their heads.
A few dozen anti-war demonstrators gathered in front of the train station where the drill took place, chanting and holding signs that read "Missile drill is preparation for war" and "Diplomatic dialogue instead of missile drills".
Persons:
Mutsumi Takahashi, Takahashi, Francis Tang, John Geddie, Gareth Jones
Organizations:
Thomson
Locations:
TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan, North Korea, Nerima, United States