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Japan government corrects missile alert

Japan's government used its J-alert nationwide emergency warning system on Thursday morning to issue a warning that a North Korean missile could fall in or around the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido.

Twenty minutes later, it issued a notice through its emergency information network system, or Em-Net, that there was no longer a possibility of that happening.

Government officials explained that the correction was made because they learned, after they issued the J-alert, that there was no possibility the missile would fall on Japanese territory.

They said they used the Em-Net because of restrictions on the J-alert system.

The central government uses the Em-Net system to send e-mails to local governments, media outlets and others in the event of a contingency, as stipulated by Japanese law.

The system has now been installed in all of Japan's 47 prefectures and their municipalities.

Source: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230413_15/