| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study was conducted to clarify how foreigners living in Japan can safely evacuate and protect their lives in the event of a Nankai Trough earthquake or an earthquake directly under the Tokyo metropolitan area. Using the vocabulary and grammar up to Level 3 (= N4) of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, our simulations confirmed that foreign residents would be able to understand the information reliably and evacuate safely even in the event of an earthquake. This is called "Easy Japanese", and by using these expressions most residents from both Kanji and non-Kanji areas were able to understand the information about the earthquake and how to evacuate. We also confirmed the effectiveness and safety of using these expressions.
It was also confirmed that governments and other public institutions could quickly transmit new information because they would be able to avoid the risks involved in the time it takes to provide translations as well as the potential for mistranslations.
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