Osaka to provide multilingual disaster information for foreigners

Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui said Friday he wants to start providing useful information for foreign visitors in the event of a disaster.The plan to develop a multilingual email system was announced after many foreigners faced difficulties when a powerful typhoon this week closed Kansai International Airport and disrupted a large number of traffic networks. They were also badly in need of emergency information when a strong earthquake hit Osaka in June."When Typhoon Jebi came, it was conspicuous that many foreign visitors were hardly able to get information," Matsui told reporters after a meetin…READ FULL ARTICLE