SENDAI -Towards a Disaster-Resilient and Environmentally-Friendly City

Since FY 2012, in order to quickly provide emergency evacuation information to as many citizens as possible, we have been sending out “emergency alert text” to the cellphones of people in subjected areas of Sendai (excluding incompatible models) when a tsunami/ major tsunami warning is issued, or when the risk of landslide/ flooding increases. These text messages are sent from each communication carrier, including NTT DOCOMO, KDDI (au), Softbank Mobile and Rakuten Mobile, and can be received even during heavy network traffic.