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Disaster Preparedness Tokyo
This app has been officially developed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. It conveniently consolidates essential disaster preparedness information, including a checklist for earthquake preparedness items, hazard maps, and features such as disaster alarms and a rain cloud radar to respond to sudden heavy rains. It is a comprehensive app covering various aspects of disasters.
Source and photo by: Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
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For iPhone: View Website
For Android: View Website
Safety Tips
This app provides emergency alerts during disasters and is supervised by the Japan Tourism Agency. It’s designed for corporate foreign travelers and offers support in 14 languages. Users can receive alerts in their preferred language.
The app delivers various alerts, including earthquake early warnings, tsunami warnings, volcanic eruption alerts, weather warnings, typhoon information, heatstroke alerts, civil protection information, evacuation information, and more, all for free.
Specifically for foreign tourists in Japan, the app has functions to help during disasters. For further details, please refer to below.
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For iPhone: View Website
- For Android: View Website
NERV Disaster Prevention
This app claims to provide disaster information faster than any other in Japan. Reports say the app’s system can process information from the Japan Meteorological Agency in just 0.1 seconds after receiving it, then analyze and deliver it to users in 0.2 to 0.3 seconds. Users can get notifications in as little as 1 second. The crisis management team at the U.S. Navy Yokosuka Base reportedly recommends this app. The developer, an engineer from Ishinomaki City, which was hit hard by a huge tsunami during the Great East Japan Earthquake, created the app to help convey the message “evacuate” to loved ones, based on his own experience. While the app takes inspiration from the popular Japanese anime “Evangelion,” known for the organization “NERV,” the anime production team has officially endorsed the use of the name, aligning with the app creator’s sentiments towards disasters. The app also supports English and, for example, during an earthquake, it notifies users with a countdown indicating how many seconds until the shaking occurs.
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Download URL
- For iPhone: View Website
- For Android: View Website
