On the day after the March 11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, a group of students from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies gathered a group of volunteers to set up a multilingual website for foreign residents seeking information about the disaster.
The site, which can be found at nip0.wordpress.com/ , comprises amanual that includes general information such as what to do when a major earthquake hits, where to ask for help, such as contact numbers of embassies and a list of useful links.
After expansion, the site now offers most of the information in 41 languages, including Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish, Hindi and Indonesian.
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