If you live in an area that is susceptible to flooding or at risk from landslides, the heavy rain etc. that the storm brings may lead to a call to evacuate. I cannot promise to be able to put out such notices for people on Facebook or on the Kumamoto-i mailing list. Accordingly, if you are in a vulnerable area, I strongly recommend that you sign up for the Japanese e-mail warning messages, which you can run through Google translate as soon as you get them. Here’s an explanation that I posted earlier about how to do this:
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Sign up for the Japanese e-mail warnings at the following address:
http://www.anshin.pref.kumamoto.jp/
If you can’t read the Japanese on this page, just send it through Google translate or a similar site:
Then, when you get a message in Japanese from the prefecture, run it through Google translate.