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SIGNS
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2016
New emergency icon system denotes disaster shelters
The government has urged prefectures and municipalities to put five redesigned emergency icons into use to guard against tsunami, floods, landslides and other disasters.
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CHUBU CONNECTION
May 23, 2014
Baffled foreign tourists get little help on trains
Although Asian tourists are flocking to Japan in greater numbers, many are at a loss in railway stations, where few signs are written in languages other than Japanese and English.
JAPAN
Aug 20, 2013
Signs of the times: street, building markers get English names
Foreign tourists should have an easier time identifying the seat of government in Tokyo when the current sign, ‘Kokkai,’ is pulled down and replaced with ‘The National Diet.’
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