Internal:
Phase 1: Pre-Event Preparedness
a. Because of Japan’s dearth of proper pharmaceuticals during the outbreak of H1N1, we must constantly have the proper supplies to combat another such pandemic. Most drugs of this kid have a shelf-life of up to seven years, and therefore can be kept stored away for when they are necessary.
b. Furthermore, the country must frequently do research on all types of anti-pandemic drugs, and strive to find the most effective one.
c. Government officials must survey the four main islands to gather information on which of these islands will be easiest to use as either a safe-zone for the healthy, or a quarantine-zone for the sick.
d. Government officials must also study the economic impact of shutting down various sectors of citizen life (schools, transportation, office buildings) and which would be the least destructive in the case of a nation-wide pandemic.
Phase 2: Early Warning Mobilization
a. As soon as outbreak begins to spread, the nation’s top scientists must come together to discuss the possible ways in which to develop and distribute a vaccine. Search for disease-ridden volunteers on whom to test the vaccine.
b. Officials must check the status of pandemic-fighting pharmaceuticals, surgical masks, and fresh water, in order to prepare for distribution to the people. Where the threat of outbreak seems severe, these must be given to all citizens.
c. All air travel and sea travel must be heavily monitored; all who travel in our out of Japan must be checked for disease before departure.
d. All travel on the Shinkansen and other railways must be heavily monitored; all who travel must be checked for disease before departure.
e. Begin to hire extra hospital and health-worker staff to aid potential patients in need.
f. Finalize quarantine or safe-zones.
Phase 3: Response and Recovery
a. Begin to distribute medicine and/or vaccine, surgical masks, and clean water throughout the country.
b. Begin to move the ill to quarantine zones. If necessary, move the safe to safe-zones.
c. Shut down all air and land travel and commercial travel between the main islands.
d. Shut down all commercial railway travel along the Taiheyō Belt.
e. Continue to test vaccine to make sure it is remaining effective and the disease has yet to adapt to it.
f. If and when necessary, close the schools, close public transportation, and finally close all office buildings. The last resort is an 8pm curfew, during which emergency health service will be available.
g. Begin to hire healthy individuals to work as health and care providers.
h. Broadcast on an hourly basis the ways in which individuals can protect themselves from the pandemic.
i. If necessary, exterminate all rats and/or insects.
j. If necessary, cremate all dead bodies.
Phase 4: Evaluation and Knowledge Integration Phase
a. Once pandemic has subsided, make certain that vaccines that have been developed are saved and kept for use in future outbreaks.
b. Slowly begin to re-open schools, businesses, and forms of travel.
c. For the first six months, keep all health inspectors and regulators.
d. Have government officials and scientists spend the following year assessing the extent to which the quarantine plans and vaccines were effective and draw up a paper of what can be done better.
e. Send government officials to corporations that lost more than 1/3 of all employees to instruct revamping of the economy.
External:
Phase 1: Pre-Event Preparedness
a. Follow all procedures of internal plan.
b. Keep ties with other nations close enough to aid them and make sure that in the future, they will aid us.
Phase 2: Early Warning Mobilization
a. Monitor all incoming air and sea travel. Check individuals for disease before and after travelling.
b. Follow all procedures of internal phase 2.
Phase 3: Response and Recovery Phase
a. Patrol all borders for illegal entrance into country.
b. Shut down all land and sea travel.
c. Shut down inter-island travel.
d. Offer aid to foreign nations; send groups out with message of peace to cure the pandemic.
e. Begin to administer vaccine to diseased individuals.
Phase 4: Evaluation and Knowledge Integration
a. Follow all procedures of internal phase.
b. Make sure ties are kept close, and economic aid is given to poverty stricken nations.
c. Work to understand causes of pandemic, and take note of what countries succeeded and failed in.
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