Kotozna, a Tokyo-based IT startup for multilingual services, has tied up with Fukuoka City to provide multilingual disaster alerts. A system to send out emergency messages using the translation function of Kotozna was tested by 30 international monitors on July 27 at Hakozaki Community Hall. The translation tool Kotozna Chat is available for 104 languages and can be used by reading a QR code with a smartphone. Source: Asahi Shimbun, 7/19/2019
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