1. Users will receive notifications when Earthquake Early Warning for local earthquakes of seismic intensity level 4 or greater, Tsunami Warning, Volcanic Warnings, Emergency Warnings , Heat illness Warnings, or Civil Protection Information are issued for the selected locations.
2. The application is available in five languages: English, simplified and traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. -Receiving Earthquake Early Warnings, Tsunami Warnings, Volcanic Warnings, Weather Warnings, Heat illness Warnings and Civil Protection Information.
3. This Application notifies a user with EEW, Tsunami Warnings, Volcanic Warnings, Weather Warnings, Heat illness Warnings and Civil Protection Information issued in Japan.
4. If you turn automatic setting of a point on, you can receive notifications even in the case that it has been more than 1 month since you set a prediction point. (*) It is necessary to activate the Location Information Service (GPS), if you wish to set locations by using GPS.
5. Before using the Application for the first time, select locations for which you wish to receive warnings from the Settings Menu (you may select a maximum of five locations (in Japan only))(*).
6. Weather Warnings (heavy rain, flood, violent wind, severe snowstorm, heavy snow, high seas, storm surge) and Emergency Warnings (heavy rain, violent wind, severe snowstorm, heavy snow, high seas, storm surge) issued for the selected locations.
7. Safety tips delivers information regarding ballistic missile attacks among civil protection information from Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
8. Also provides Shelter Information. (Link to external application. ※Please note that information of municipalities using "L alert" will be displayed.
9. While the application and various types of information are free, communication charges related to download and use of Application shall be borne by the user.
10. Links to other sources of information that may be necessary during disaster situations (contact information of embassy, nearest tourist information centers, etc. ), and other information concerning disasters and tourism.
11. Also, please make sure that the device which has not been changed a prediction point for more than 1 month from final change date of setting will not be able to receive notifications.
1. This app would be very useful as I live in Japan and all alerts come in Japanese and in an emergency it's difficult to try and translate into English.For three days before the hurricane hit, I tried to use this app, but it refused to move past the "select your country of origin" screen and asked me to try again later.
2. For example, I got an alert every 15 minutes for a good 2 hours for a typhoon heading away from Japan.Can't get past the 'select country of origin' page after selecting English for language.
3. Guys, I understand that you want to collect survey data, but maybe not being able to do that shouldn't make the app stop working and not give vital emergency information.Able to select language but unable to select country of origin.
4. Also, under the medical section it contains no mention of covid, which would seem a greater safety concern than normal summer weather... Uninstalling...Great app with lots of useful information and advice for travelling in Japan.
5. Don't encourage people to download a broken app during a hectic time!Daily loud alarms about hot weather -- NOT useful! I installed this app a year ago so that I could stay informed about tornadoes and earthquakes when in Japan.
6. It is not useful to have an application for foreigners in Japan if it doesn't work.
7. Thankfully didn't need any of it, but it was reassuring to have it installed just in case!It worked during summertime for heat warnings, but didn't get any warnings during the last typhoon, even though the areas I selected were on purple and red alert.
8. Another issue was typhoon Hagibis and Internet connections in Japan.It's a useful app, but the notifications can be a bit excessive.
9. I am considering uninstalling, it seems useless when it really counts.Doesn't work with Galaxy note 8.
10. No matter what country I choose, it'll load for a bit and then an error message flashes up saying I can't select that country because it can't be saved.
11. Tried multiple languages but it still crashes and doesn't continue to setup.