Online event: The new rules about evacuation in case of disaster, with a focus on the evacuation of the elderly and the handicapped

Date: Wednesday, June 10, 19:45-21:00 ​

Speaker: Nathalie Matsuzawa 

Contact Amanda for the Zoom link

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Nathalie Matsuzawa has been translating weather emergency information and broadcasting translated messages during earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis, floods, and landslides since 2018. All the translations she has been providing come from the Japan Meteorological Agency and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and she provides many videos to understand weather emergencies in Japan.

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Nathalie was asked by the Japan Meteorological Agency of Fukuoka, with whom she often works, to attend a new training session for communication about weather emergencies. At the meeting, the new disaster alert system that will begin on May 29th and the new rules about evacuation were discussed. In her talk, she will provide information regarding services that are available for the elderly, the sick/handicapped, and foreigners before, during, and after evacuation, or in an emergency situation.

 

The session will focus on four major topics: 

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1. What the elderly need to focus on for every different kind of weather emergency (heat, rain, wind, typhoon, landslide, flooding, coastal dangers, tsunami, etc.)

2. What the elderly need to be careful about, watch for, prepare, etc.

3. The new alert system and how it affects caregivers or older foreigners,

4. Evacuation as a caregiver or older foreigner: what to expect before, during, and after, and the help we can get if we need to evacuate.

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Preparation for July 15 (Wednesday) online meeting about the Kaigo Hoken (Long-term health care insurance system

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Our speaker (Atsuko Izaki, a Kyoto City Councillor and supporter of Counterpoint) will talk about the Kaigo Hoken system (long-term health care insurance and assistance) and is inviting your questions, from your perspectives as foreign residents in Japan, about how to apply for and use this system, who and what it covers, etc.

 

Please send your questions to Amanda by June 30 so that she has time to prepare the answers you need.