Disasters
For Foreign Residents
【Useful links for disaster information】Available in 10 Languages!
We’ve compiled a list of links where you can find useful information during a disaster, as well as what you need to do to prepare before one strikes!
You can access disaster and evacuation information through the websites and smartphone apps featured here.
This collection of links is available in 10 languages.
You can read the link collection in 10 different languages
Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Nepali, Portuguese, Spanish, Burmese, Indonesian.

Available information

Disaster Prevention and Disaster Information: Tokyo
You can find information about evacuation sites and disaster alerts.

[Disaster Prevention and Disaster Information: Tokyo] (Korean)
Disaster Prevention and Disaster Information: Nationwide
You can find information on earthquakes, heavy rain, typhoons, and other disasters through those websites.

[Disaster Prevention and Disaster Information: Nationwide] (Japanese)
Multilingual and Easy Japanese News
You can watch the news or listen to the radio in many different languages, or read news articles in plain Japanese.

[Multilingual and Plain Japanese News (General and Disaster-Related)] (Vietnamese)
Smartphone Apps
Useful Apps for Disasters: Here are some apps that provide disaster information, translation tools, and more.

[Smartphone App] (Portuguese)
Safety Confirmation
These are websites that help you share your status via smartphone or computer during a disaster.

[Check on Safety] (Burmese)
Embassies & Consulates
This is a website where you can find the phone numbers and locations of embassies and consulates in Japan.

[Embassies and Consulates] (Spanish)
Disaster Prevention
You can learn about the necessary preparations to make before a disaster strikes.
These websites provide information on what to bring with you and how to evacuate in times of disaster.

[Preparing for Disasters] (Indonesian)
Click below for the list of links