THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 6, 2022 at 15:36 JST
Emergency alerts are displayed on a smartphone screen in Hokkaido when the J-Alert was issued on Oct. 4. (Yukio Hashimoto)
A government spokesman apologized for confusion triggered by the country’s J-Alert national early warning system that was mistakenly sent to residents of far-flung islands south of Tokyo following a North Korean ballistic missile launch on Oct. 4. [Read More]
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