Portable toilets, preserved food and bottled water topped the list of the most sought-after items.
A staff member works as a sign written "bottled water is being rationed, with a cap of one case per each customer" was displayed in a supermarket in Tokyo.
“Potential sales restrictions are on the way”, the sign said, adding bottled water was already being rationed due to “unstable” procurement. The advisory concerns the Nankai Trough “subduction zone” between two tectonic plates in the Pacific Ocean, where massive earthquakes have hit in the past. On social media platform X, spam posts taking advantage of fears over the mega quake are rapidly mushrooming.
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