Three years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, most Japanese companies do not have business continuity plans in place.

BCP refers to plans for how to continue operations after a major disaster.

NTV and the Yomiuri newspaper found that only about fourteen percent of roughly twenty-three-thousand companies surveyed had such a plan in place.

Those with no plan did not know how to make one or thought such plans would be ineffective in case of an actual disaster.

Japan’s government is aiming for one-hundred-percent of businesses to have business continuity plans by 2020.