Wireless carriers start disaster info service for foreign tourists

...use begins with the reopening of the border for tourists in 2023...

"Foreign travelers would find it hard to get information about shelters"

In other words, directions to the nearest gymnasium with hardwood floors.

Great idea, except, as a pessimist, when the Great Hanshin Earthquake hit Kobe, most communications were smashed for 3 days.

The three companies said they began preparations for the multilingual disaster information service after many foreign visitors were unable to receive emergency information when a magnitude 6.7 quake hit Hokkaido in September 2018.

Wow, it hardly took 2 years to create a service which sends a text message that gives a phone number for JNTO and a web address for NHK World! So impressive! These guys surely operate at 5G speeds!

And so useful! I mean, there certainly is no way to ever search the internet to find such info when needed...

The timing of this could be better! I can just see these carriers stopping the service because no one is using it!

There aren’t t any foreign tourists....