The Japan Tourism Agency has introduced a new app for smartphone that will help foreign visitors should a major earthquake and tsunami stricke.
According to an article in The Japan Times:
As part of efforts to help foreign tourists during their stay in the country, the Japan Tourism Agency has produced an English-language smartphone app called “Safety Tips” which provides users with real-time earthquake and tsunami warnings.
The agency came up with the idea of creating the app after government surveys of foreigners traveling around the country at the time of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami found that many experienced hardships and confusion, said Rumiko Nishihira, an official at JTA’s Receiving Foreign Tourists Division.
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