Practices by Country

The website provides up-to-date warnings and emergency information in Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish and English. It includes information on available services, projected paths of storms, and evacuation orders and accompanying instructions.

Foreign Volunteers Japan was established as an open discussion forum for sharing and discussing information regarding volunteer activities, aid delivery, and humanitarian relief issues concerning the post-quake/tsunami recovery in the Tohoku region.

Disaster Japan is a centralized disaster information for non-Japanese speakers in Japan. This site attempts to bring together, in English, as much information as possible.

A Foreign Supporter in Time of Disaster is a volunteer at the time when the major disaster occurs, who provides support to foreigners who were affected and live in or near Shimane Prefecture, in particular, translation of disaster information, and other activities such as providing information 

This video, produced by Sendai International Relations Association, shows how to prepare for earthquakes and tsunamis and what to do when they actually happen.

The Great East Japan Earthquake affected foreign nationals in the areas hit by the disaster. Elements of the Japan’s Ministry of Foreign affairs response, implemented in cooperation with IOM, included:

In October 2007 Japan turned on the first publicly available nationwide earthquake early warning system. On March 11, 2011 it had its first true test during the M9 Tohoku earthquake off the coast of Sendai.

The Hyogo E-Net is a system designed to utilize current trends in mobile and wireless information technology in order to supplement conventional systems for disaster management, such as radio and loudspeaker vans, which directly supplies local citizens with emergency information (on earthquakes,

After the “Great East Japan Earthquake,” a 24-hour, 365-day telephone consultation service was established to serve people affected by the tragedy. The service was known as “Yorisoi Hotline,” the word “yorisoi” means being close together.

The Abu Dhabi Dialogue is a voluntary, non-binding and informal state-led consultative process engaging seven Asian countries of labour destination (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen) and eleven countries of origin (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pak