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Disaster Information for Foreign Residents in Shimane from the Shimane International Center

The Shimane International Center has compiled a "Disaster Handbook" to help assist foreign residents to be prepared in case a disaster strikes.(See below) Please print out this handbook as it is needed. You never know when a disaster may occur. You may also experience different kinds of disaster here in Japan from those in your home country. Therefore, it is especially important to prepare yourself and learn about what to do in a disaster. The Shimane International Center also sends a Multilingual Email Magazine to SIC-listed mobile phones in times of a disaster.

Disaster Handbook in many languages

Disaster Handbook for Foreign Residents -- Be prepared for a natural disaster --
(Languages: English, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Korean, Tagalog)

Publication, Supervision, Editing:

Culture and International Affairs Division, Shimane Prefecture
Fire and Disaster Prevention Division, Shimane Prefecture
Shimane International Center

* Not to be used/sold for commercial gain

Multilingual Mobile Phone Email Magazine

This phone message service is generally used to send messages regarding lifestyle information and international exchange events. However, in the case of a major disaster, information detailed on the NHK Matsue Homepage will be translated and sent out using the mobile phone email magazine system. "Providing is preventing. Please register for this service.
Further Information: http://www.sic-info.org/en/life/mobile/

Disaster-related Multilingual Information Creation Tools

Tools to help you access information in a variety of languages if there is a disaster/emergency

The Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR) has produced a very useful computer tool that provides a variety of information for foreign residents in many languages (text files and sound files). Information is posted in six languages (English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog), with more simplified information posted in four other languages (Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Russian). Using this computer tool, lifestyle-related and disaster-related information can be provided in a variety of languages at emergency shelters (information signboards etc.).

Tools: http://www.clair.or.jp/j/multiculture/tagengo/tool.html

Multilingual Sign (Signboard) Sheet Creation Tool
Mobile Phone Multilingual Information Creation Tool
Multilingual Audio Information Creation Tool

(NB: These tools must be installed onto the user's computer).

It is very difficult to use these information tools for the first time after a disaster has happened. Please make sure you trial these tools in advance. There are many types of useful information available in many languages, as well as many signs which can be created and used at emergency shelters.
Think ahead and prepare useful multilingual signs and information in advance.