Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday evening that the Hokkaido Ballistic Region (Iburi) region had a power outage due to the earthquake of the epicenter, "It is expected that the power failure will be eliminated in the whole area of Hokkaido except for some areas where power distribution facilities were damaged tomorrow It was announced. It also mentioned that "the supply system of the tightrope of the demand is going on". The government and Hokkaido Electric Power will strive to increase the supply of electricity and call for citizen's maximum energy saving.
At the related ministerial meeting, which was the official residence of the prime minister, explained the situation of correspondence. In order to promptly deliver food and drinking water to the affected areas, it was decided that the relevant ministries and agencies launched a "push-type support coordination meeting".
Meanwhile, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kannoe Wei announced at the press conference the evening announced that nine people died in five city towns such as Atsutoshimachi. Nine people in the same city stopped cardiopulmonary, 24 people said that the safety is unknown.