The Yomiuri Shimbun's network of 6,000 local newspaper vendors throughout Japan delivers newspapers to readers each day. Because these personnel engage with their communities on a daily basis while delivering newspapers and collecting payments, they also form part of a volunteer task force promoting safety in their local communities. The Yomiuri crime prevention association has a satellite at each regional vendor and partners with the local police force there. Suspicious persons are reported to the police, and leaflets on crime prevention and traffic safety are created and distributed, among a range of other activities and programming.Personnel also look out for elderly residents to ensure they have not become injured at home; many people's lives have been saved as a result of this vigilance. The Yomiuri Shimbun supports these local efforts by its vendors and business partners.

Japan is the site of many natural disasters, so it is imperative that each generation remember the lessons of past incidents and further increase its awareness of disaster prevention. The Yomiuri Shimbun held the Yomiuri disaster prevention forum in 1995 in Osaka, one of the sites struck by the Great Hanshin Earthquake. Through this forum and other activities, we convey the latest information on how to prepare for disasters. We have also planned exchanges between children from the areas hit by the Great Hanshin Earthquake and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.