First time in Japan! We produced videos useful for foreigners during times of disaster

Hello everyone. My name is Wataru Nishigauchi, a CMO(Chief Marketing Officer) at Shijonawate City.

In the last blog, I introduced the mind of a citizen(Mr. Kenzo Hirai) who suggested sending an explanatory video in English for the first time in Japan. The contents of the video are five levels of "Disaster Warning Level" announced by the revised "Guidelines on Evacuation Recommendations "(Cabinet Office).

Please watch the video here!

In this blog, I introduce Mr. Joseph Baietto who is an ALT (Assistant Language Teacher) in a Shijonawate City elementary school. He supervised translation into English, and appeared in the video when we made the video.

Joseph has been an ALT at the city junior high school since 2013 under the "JET Program". Since last year, he provides children with an opportunity to get familiar with English in elementary schools and nursery school as a city official. When we asked for the English version of "Disaster Warning Levels," which had only been explained in Japanese before, he took over immediately. That's why the English version was released soon.

I asked Joseph, who made an effort to be able to release the homepage and the video within one month from the suggestion from Mr. Hirai, about this effort.

Please read the homepage for more.

2019年8月2日公開