Fuji TV launches first data broadcasting service for natural disaster info in English

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Fuji Television Network Inc (Fuji TV) on Thursday launched a data broadcasting service for earthquake and tsunami information in English.

Fuji TV provides viewers with useful information around their daily lives on TV screen via non-linked data broadcasting service. (The information can be displayed on screen anytime by clicking on the d-button of a TV remote control.) The information available includes current news, traffic reports, weather forecasts, as well as supplementary information that are closely tied to the on-air programs. Along with these contents, Fuji TV also offers real-time disaster information on tsunamis and earthquakes of over level 3 on the JMA Seismic Intensity Scale. However, this disaster-related information was displayed only in Japanese; therefore the information was not understandable to non-Japanese speakers. With the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics coming in 2020, the number of foreign tourists and residents in Japan is expected to increase even more. For that reason, Fuji TV has started offering earthquake and tsunami information in English via its data broadcasting service in an effort to help improve safety of non-Japanese speakers.

Fuji TV began making preparation since the summer of 2014 and achieved development and implementation of an automatic real-time translation system of disaster-related information announced by the Japan Meteorological Agency. Fuji TV aims to offer this service in languages other than English in the future and will strive to further improve its quality.

The following disaster-related information is available in English:

— When an earthquake of level 3 or above on the JMA Seismic Intensity Scale of 7 has occurred.n– When tsunami advisory/tsunami warning/large tsunami warning is issued.n– Regions with earthquakes of level 3 or above on the JMA Seismic Intensity Scale of 7n– Map with the epicenter and the intensity level of the earthquaken– Information archive for the latest earthquaken– Tsunami Advisory/Tsunami Warning/Large Tsunami Warningn– Regions with possible risks of tsunami, estimated arrival times and wave heightsn– Arrival times and wave heights of tsunami