Google Street View Ventures into Post-Quake, Off-Limits Fukushima Prefecture
A little more than two years after the colossal Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster of March 2011,...
Posts Tagged: Japan
Mobile Service Disruption from Great Japan Earthquake Visualized
When the tragic earthquake hit Japan back in March of 2011, mobile communications were severely disr...
Earthquake Buddy App Sends Your Location To Friends When an Earthquake Hits
As we saw in last year’s tragic earthquake in Japan, communication in the wake of a disaster c...
Google Big Tent, and the Discussion of Digital Disaster Response in Japan
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has just published a series of videos from its recent Big Tent Japan event that...
Fuji Xerox Continues to Assist with Post-Disaster Document Recovery in Japan
According to a report from PC World, Japan’s Fuji Xerox has sent a team of 259 employees to Is...
The Challenge of Digital Remembrance
As you most likely know, Japan marked the one-year anniversary of the tragic March 11th earthquake a...
Facebook Testing Disaster Message Board in Japan
So I noticed something interesting when I logged into Facebook today. I’m in Japan, and it see...
As Japan Uses Bloggers For Tourism Bump, Numbers Show Korea and China are Key
A Kyodo report today gives a brief update on the Japan Foreign Ministry’s invitation to overse...
Google Launches Online Public Alerts for Disaster Warnings in Japan
Japan already has a sophisticated and trigger-quick public alerts system for disasters like earthqua...
Project 311: Analyzing Media Coverage of Japan’s 311 Earthquake
There’s an interesting piece over on the Emergency Journalism website about Project 311, which...
Japan Steps Up Efforts in Online Disaster Response
According to The Wall Street Journal’s Japan Real Time blog, the Japanese government is aiming...
A New Vending Machine That Keeps Drinks Chilled Without Using Energy
At Tech in Asia, we’re very keen to write about innovations that save energy. So here’s ...
Eye See Tohoku: Helping Children Through Photography
The other day I noted the difficulty of recording and archiving information related to last yearR...
Peppermeet: LBS App Could Help Japan’s Disaster Response
Rocket Staff is a young, Tokyo-based startup which has introduced a location-based iPhone app called...
All Japan’s Earthquakes in 2011, Visualized in One Startling Video
There have been a number of visualizations related to last year’s March 11 earthquake in Japan...
Photohoku: Helping Japan’s Tohoku Rebuild Through Photos
It’s almost been a year now since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and while we d...
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