Subject
Disasters
Earthquakes and typhoons arrive every year here, so the comment sections spend little time on the event itself. They are about what happens to people afterwards.
- Monday 7 September, Tokyo. The morning came with a warning of torrential rain. Of 322 comments, 54 percent of the vote said it was ordinary rain where they stood, 20 percent blamed JR's reduced trains for the crowding, and 4.5 percent said just work from home At 5:21 on the morning of Monday 7 September, the Japan Weather Association's tenki.jp published a warning on Yahoo! Read →
- Japan's most-read tech story today drew 16 comments. Everyone was busy using the map. The morning after record rain hit Chiba, Toyota switched its free "roads that worked" map to show the flooded prefecture — every road its connected cars actually got through in the last three hours. Read →
- COVID in a Kumamoto Shelter: Why Disaster-Prone Japan Still Sleeps on Gym Floors A COVID case hit a Kumamoto quake shelter with no partitions, one isolation room, and 8,000+ evacuees. Read →