japan, moving towards becoming a multi-cultural society, and the way of disseminating multilingual disaster information to non-japanese speakers
Japan is moving towards becoming a multi-cultural society with the increasing number of foreign residents, with a background of the ageing Japanese population and low-birth rate. We discuss the present situation of the level and type of information provided to non-Japanese speakers, and then introduce the Multilingual Disaster Information System to translate a range of information on natural disasters quickly and accurately into multiple languages, which the authors of this paper have developed as members of the Multilingual Disaster Information System Consortium. We present details on how our proposed language service could service the foreign population in Japan.
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