Multilingual Information Regarding the Great East Japan Earthquake

【Earthquake】Link Collection Upgrade!

Additional information regarding the earthquake & the nuclear plant follows.

【Leaving Japan】
Humanitarian return assistance (International Organization for Migration)
http://www.iomjapan.org/act/act_058.cfm
English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Tagalog, Thai, easy Japanese, Japanese

【Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant】
Multilingual lecture on radioactivity (Support 21 Social Welfare Foundation)
http://www.support21.or.jp/20110326jishin_genpatsu/20110402jishingenpatsu.html
English, Burmese, Persian, French, Japanese, others

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The following is a link collection that might be useful for our foreign members residing in the metropolitan and Kanto area.

■Overall Information
Multilingual information for disaster victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake (Center for Multilingual Multicultural Education and Research, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
http://www.tufs.ac.jp/blog/ts/g/cemmer/2011/03/post_172.html
More than 15 languages

Multi lingual disaster information including minority languages (Research Institute for World Languages, Osaka University)
http://riwl-disaster.info/
More than 20 languages

Tohoku Pacific Offshore Earthquake multi-language support center (NPO National Managerial Council for Multicultural Information & Assistance)
http://eqinfojp.net/?page_id=66
English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Easy Japanese, Japanese

■Immigration Control
Information by the Immigration Bureau (Ministry of Justice)
http://www.moj.go.jp/nyuukokukanri/kouhou/nyuukokukanri01_00017.html
English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese

■Planned Power Outage
Planned blackout information (Tokyo Electric Power Company)
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/index-e.html
English, Chinese, Korean, Japanese

Blackout area search system (User Local Inc.)
http://machi.userlocal.jp/teiden/
Japanese
http://machi.userlocal.jp/teiden/en.php
English

Rotating blackout information (Yahoo! JAPAN)
http://setsuden.yahoo.co.jp/
Japanese
http://notice.yahoo.co.jp/emg/en/archives/eq_jp.html
English, Chinese, Korean

■Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
Information on the Fukushima Nuclear Plant (Tokyo Electric Power Company)
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/index-e.html
English, Chinese, Korean, Japanese

About the nuclear accident (International Atomic Energy Agency)
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html
English

Information by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency)
http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/index.html
English, Japanese

Information on radiation exposure (National Institute of Radiological Sciences)
http://www.nirs.go.jp/ENG/index.html
English, Chinese, Japanese

Countrywide radiation monitoring data (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
http://www.mext.go.jp/
Japanese
http://www.mext.go.jp/english/radioactivity_level/index.htm
English, Chinese, Korean

Nuclear plant information (Yahoo! JAPAN)
http://dailynews.yahoo.co.jp/fc/domestic/fukushima_nuclear_threat/
Japanese
http://notice.yahoo.co.jp/emg/en/archives/np_jp.html
English, Chinese, Korean

■Voice Information
Multilingual radio news (NHK)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/radio/program/16lang.html
More than 15 languages

Multicultural & multilingual community broadcast (FMYY)
http://www.tcc117.org/fmyy/en/index.html
Several languages

■Telephone Services
Multilingual hot line for foreign victims of the Tohoku Pacific Offshore Earthquake (NPO National Managerial Council for Multicultural Information & Assistance)
http://eqinfojp.net/?page_id=631
English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

Free emergency disaster translation service (BRICKs Corporation Inc.)
http://www.bricks-corp.com/
English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

■Portal Sites
Disaster information link collection of the Cabinet Office (Office for the Coordination of Policies on Foreign Residents)
http://www8.cao.go.jp/teiju-portal/jpn/etc/disaster/pdf/website-link.pdf
English, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese

Information collection by field (International Organization for Migration)
http://www.iomjapan.org/news/press_237.cfm
English, Portuguese, Hiragana Japanese, Roman Alphabet Japanese, Japanese

Practical information collection (Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan)
http://www.jca.apc.org/migrant-net/Japanese/top/EarthquakeInfo.html
Various languages

General disaster information site (Google)
http://www.google.co.jp/intl/en/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html
English, Chinese, Korean, Japanese (partially Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese too)