task force. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's R110 and Tokyo Fire Department's Hyper Rescue are the other elite rescue teams which may form such a task force alongside the Japan Coast Guard's Special Rescue Team. Since establishment in October 1975 up till February 2002, the SRT had been activated in a total of 2,341 sorties. The latest use of the SRT's skills was to carry out the search for people during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Large numbers of the team worked near and in the Fukushima nuclear power plant . The team worked with large numbers of specialist rescue teams due to the severity of the disaster. See also Special Security Team References "特殊救難隊" by Japan Coast Guard, February 2002, retrieved January 5, 2007 "JICA-PCG HRD News" by VADM Kozo Tanaka, June 2004, retrieved January 5, 2007 Footnotes Japan Coast Guard