THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 21, 2019 at 19:10 JST
Tablet devices allow evacuation centers and evacuees to swiftly and efficiently communicate such information as necessary goods to municipal, prefectural and national authorities. The picture was taken at the Nagano prefectural government office on Oct. 17. (Sawa Okabayashi)
Tents for privacy, video games for kids, healthy meals and tablet PCs--these are some of the measures being taken at evacuation centers housing more than 4,000 people unable to return home after Typhoon No. 19 swept through eastern Japan on Oct. 12. [Read More]
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