2) Participating in Citizen Protection Training

The police are actively participating in the training exercises which are conducted based on the Citizen Protection Act (hereinafter referred to as “citizen protection training”) in order to implement Citizen Protection Measures promptly and precisely in armed attack situations.

The police have participated in the citizen protection trainings sponsored by the Cabinet Secretariat and prefectural governments, such as the Hyogo Prefecture Citizen Protection Joint Field Training Exercise in November 2009 in which they received training in the evacuation of citizens, collection and provision of disaster information, and search and rescue of victims.

The police are making efforts to strengthen cooperation with relevant organizations through such trainings, while working to become proficient in the collection of disaster information and evacuation of citizens in armed attack situations.

## (4) Measures against Novel Influenza

Measures in response to novel influenza are quickly becoming an urgent topic domestically and abroad. In December 2005 the government advanced measures against novel influenza by formulating an “Action Plan to Counter Novel Influenza.” The NPA created an “NPA Novel Influenza Response Committee” in April 2008 and established an “NPA Action Plan to Counter Novel Influenza” in September of the same year.

With the outbreak of novel influenza (A/H1N1) domestically and abroad, since April 2009, the NPA has established action plans in each prefectural police organization in line with the “NPA Action Plan to Counter Novel Influenza.” Working together with the relevant organizations, the NPA provided support to strengthen security activities at international airports and on borders, and is implementing various measures to maintain social order by controlling any crime borne out of chaos caused by novel influenza.

### 2. Measures against Cyber Terrorism

Information technology (IT) has become widespread in the lives of citizens and in social and economic activities in general. When cyber attacks are carried out against the core system of such essential infrastructure $ ^{1} $ which forms the base of our society, the effect will be enormous.

In July 2009, cyber attacks targeting the governmental agencies in the U.S. and South Korea were carried out. It became clear that servers in Japan were used. As such the threats of cyber terrorism $ ^{2} $ is becoming more and more realistic. In order to foresee the threat of cyber terrorism at the earliest stage possible and prevent damage from occurring or spreading, the police are engaged continuously in measures against cyber terrorism.

Note 1: Social infrastructure in the field of information communication, finance, aviation, railroad, electricity, gas, government/administration service, (including local public entities), healthcare, water, and transportation.

2: Cyber attacks on core systems of essential infrastructure, or severe failure in the core systems which are considered to be caused by cyber attacks.

## (1) Situation of Measures against Cyber Terrorism

The NPA is promoting measures against cyber terrorism through the Cyber Terrorism Countermeasure Promotion Office, which is a cross-divisional section related to security, community safety and info-communication.