TOKYO: Japan, which has one of the world's most advanced tsunami warning systems, said yesterday it would work with Indian Ocean nations to alert them better to massive waves of the kind that killed nearly 150,000 people.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told an emergency summit in Jakarta that talks on building such a warning system should be held at a UN conference on disasters this month in Kobe, Japan, where 6,000 people died in a quake a decade ago.
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