{"id":391,"date":"2021-07-03T22:17:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T13:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2021-07-03T22:19:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T13:19:24","slug":"disaster-mitigation-in-japan-weather-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/03\/disaster-mitigation-in-japan-weather-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster Mitigation in Japan-Weather Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/kokusai\/multi.html?fbclid=IwAR1JlN055GHA9GaFeM7_4MqoPs0FIghoxIWgoqSUi-feiZugbNPI1N8VxNQ\">Japan Meteorological Agency<\/a> is the best source in various languages for local weather and for real-time risks evaluation. In addition to weather forecasts, its English\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.data.jma.go.jp\/multi\/index.html?lang=en\">Home Page<\/a> offers weather warnings\/advisories, real-time risk maps for landslides, inundations and floods, tropical cyclones information, tsunami warnings and advisory, earthquake information and volcanic warning\/forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the following screen capture of a map available on July 3rd at 19:10, the level of precision can be very high. Similar maps are available for all the risks above-mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, municipalities exposed to flooding \u00a0such as Toride in Ibaraki have their own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city.toride.ibaraki.jp.e.mk.hp.transer.com\/anzen-anshin\/kurashi\/anzen\/bosai\/bosai-news.html\">disaster prevention measures<\/a>. Be prepared!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Screen Shot 2021-07-03 at 21.58.27.png\" src=\"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-03-at-21.58.27.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2021 07 03 at 21 58 27\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Meteorological Agency is the best source in various languages for local weather and for real-time risks evaluation. In addition to weather forecasts, its English\u00a0 Home Page offers weather warnings\/advisories, real-time risk maps for landslides, inundations and floods, tropical cyclones information, tsunami warnings and advisory, earthquake information and volcanic warning\/forecasts. As you can see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[39,38],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-useful","tag-disaster","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}