Naoyuki Hasegawa, the Secretary-General of the Japan Meteorological Agency, said that after the Japan Meteorological Agency canceled the delivery of some of the emergency breaking e-mails sent when the danger of a disaster was imminent, it turned around later this month. I'm sorry for making a noise. I would like to take this matter seriously and respond to it. "
The Japan Meteorological Agency notifies smartphones and mobile phones by e-mail through mobile phone operators in order to promptly inform them of the danger of disasters and evacuation information, but on the 12th of this month, special warnings such as heavy rain and storms and special warnings such as heavy rain and storms Announced that it will stop delivering evacuation alerts with evacuation alert levels 4 and 5.
After that, the Japan Meteorological Agency received a series of concerns such as "I will not be able to obtain the information necessary for evacuation", and on the 15th of this month, how the information was transmitted by the local government from the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Saito. He was instructed to investigate and explain the results, and revealed that he would not cancel the delivery.
At a regular press conference held on the 20th, Japan Meteorological Agency Secretary Hasegawa said, "I'm sorry for making a noise as a result. I would like to take this seriously and respond firmly and politely. I apologized.
When asked by a reporter if he couldn't anticipate a voice of concern about the sudden end of distribution, he said, "I vaguely think that if we don't understand our ideas properly, we'll be worried. I was aware of it within the agency, but I thought that the content of the initial explanation would make it understandable. "
In addition, he reiterated the idea that it depends on the results of the survey to the local government as to whether or not to continue distribution in the future, and explained that specific survey contents are under consideration.