Disasters
【Disaster Prevention Topics⑥】"Safety tips", Tool for obtaining information during disasters
The Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation “TSUNAGARI” is introducing tools that are useful for disaster prevention, as part of our “Disaster Prevention Topics.”
"Safety tips" is a free app launched by the Japan Tourism Agency. The app provides easy-to-understand disaster information to international visitors.
The app features push notifications for Earthquake Early Warnings, Tsunami Warnings, Eruption Notices, Weather Warnings, and other disaster warnings.
It also has various useful functions if a disaster actually occurs. In addition to providing information on medical institutions which can accept foreign patients, the app features a flowchart showing appropriate behavior during a disaster, a communication card for obtaining information from nearby Japanese people, and useful links that provide information in times of disaster.
The app is available in 14 languages: English, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Tagalog（Filipino), Nepali, Khmer, Myanmar(Burmese) and Mongolian.
We also highly recommend that foreign residents living in Japan download the app.