{"id":123936,"date":"2019-08-19T13:51:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T04:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=123936&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-08-19T13:51:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T04:51:56","slug":"fukuoka-city-begins-disaster-information-in-18-languages","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-city-begins-disaster-information-in-18-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka City Begins Disaster Information in 18 Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka City recently expanded the number of languages provided via telephone during disasters. The city\u2019s call center can provide information to foreigners in disastrous situations such as severe earthquakes and heavy rainfalls. While the service had previously been available in English, Chinese and Korean, fifteen more languages were added. The available languages are English, Chinese (Mandarin), Korean, Vietnamese, Nepalese, Thai, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Tagalog, Malay, Burmese, Mongolian and Khmer. The call center (092-711-4533) is only open during disasters. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.fukuoka.lg.jp\/data\/open\/cnt\/3\/69648\/1\/saigaijigaikokujinnmukedennwasoudan.pdf?20190814165602\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fukuoka City<\/a>, 8\/2\/2019<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fukuoka-disaster-collage.jpg?resize=1363%2C481&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1363\" height=\"481\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fukuoka-disaster-collage.jpg?w=1363&amp;ssl=1 1363w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fukuoka-disaster-collage.jpg?resize=300%2C106&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fukuoka-disaster-collage.jpg?resize=768%2C271&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fukuoka-disaster-collage.jpg?resize=1024%2C361&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Global-Community-Fukuoka-1638403473095160\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Global Community Fukuoka<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka City recently expanded the number of languages provided via telephone during disasters. The city\u2019s call center can provide information to foreigners in disastrous situations such as severe earthquakes and heavy rainfalls. While the service had previously been available in English, Chinese and Korean, fifteen more languages were added. The available&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":123937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-123936","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/123936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}