I'd like to thank Atsuko for her excellent post yesterday about where to find all kinds of practical information related to quake recovery. Atsuko posted a Google translate address but I'd like to share the original URL:
https://imacoco-navi.netlify.app/
The Google Translate URL worked on my computer but only for a moment — the text came out in English, and then the tabs and buttons stopped responding.
Here's why, in plain terms. When you use a translate.google.com link, Google doesn't send you to the real site. It fetches the page, rewrites it, and hands you a copy. That's fine for an ordinary page of text. But this site is a live board: the reports load in a few seconds after the page opens, and the tabs ("Water outage," "Power outage"), the filters, and the reporting form all work by updating the page as you tap. Google's rewritten copy can't keep up with that, so the first screen translates and then nothing moves.
So I'd suggest going straight to the Japanese URL above and letting your own browser translate it. Chrome, Safari, and Edge all have translation built in, and they translate the page where it sits, leaving the site itself running — so the tabs and buttons keep working. (Firefox is the exception; its Japanese translation is unreliable, so use one of the other three.) The screenshots here are the real site in Chrome on my iPhone, in English, with the tabs working normally.
On an iPhone or iPad: in Chrome, tap the ⋯ menu and choose "Translate…" — or in Safari, tap the "aA" button at the left of the address bar and choose "Translate to English."
On Android: open it in Chrome, tap the ⋮ menu, and choose "Translate…"
On a computer: open it in Chrome or Edge and right-click anywhere on the page → "Translate to English."
One tip: wait a few seconds for the reports to appear before you translate. And if you can, check place names against the Japanese — machine translation handles the status labels well, but it does odd things to Japanese addresses (one entry came out as "Near the side of the ship"). When it matters, the Japanese text underneath is the reliable version.
Kirk (with an assist in text preparation from Claude by Anthropic)
P.S. Here's the original post from Atsuko.