A government bureau in western Japan began trials Monday for their multilingual smartphone-based service to provide overseas tourists with disaster information after a number of natural disasters hit the area last summer.The service by the Kinki Bureau of Telecommunications in Osaka will ultimately provide weather news and evacuation orders in several languages, and will allow foreign embassies to issue messages to their nationals in emergency situations. Sightseeing information will be offered through the service when there is no disaster.Osaka is aiming to launch the service by June when …READ FULL ARTICLE
