7/8/2005

Over in the News Section, Taro mentioned that au (KDDI) will now be providing English disaster warnings and messages over their EZ mail ( EZ Web ) service.

KDDI’s au phones to accept English disaster-time messages
TOKYO — …disaster-time message transmission services via the au cell phone EZweb email function will accept English messages from July 14….cell phone users to leave messages such as “safe,” “sustained damage,” and “staying at home” or “staying at a shelter” as well as a short comment ….

In this day and age we’re all told to be a little more careful, and a little more alert about our surroundings, and au seem to be taking the right approach. There’s no use for an English speaker to be sent alerts in Japanese, now is there?