Recent events, while tragic for those involved, are also a timely reminder for those of us living here, where earthquakes are always a possibility. Hokkaido is generally ‘lucky’ in that our share in the natural disaster pot tends to be minimal, earthquakes do happen, and when they do, you’ll sure be a much happier camper if you’re prepared.

Please download the following PDF to help prepare you for when and if a disaster happens.

Survival Kit

Stay safe,

Chelle

I was planning to update this weekly. Clearly, that hasn’t happened, but from this is where things will really start to pick up and where each week there WILL be more information to post, so please check back regularly and I hope to have something to offer that may be of help.

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Just in time for spring! Enjoy the sakura!

Edit: I’ve added and modified a lot of stuff. Hopefully this be the final look.

Any kind of disaster quickly brings about jammed phone-lines and, if-any, patchy internet service. To combat these issues NTT, Docomo, Softbank, and au have their own disaster message boards available for use in disaster situations.

Users leave messages via voice-mail on NTT or text for the mobile companies, and it is hoped that instead of calling family/friends/employers, people will contact one another via the message boards, helping to keep phone-lines free for emergency calls only.

Please download the following file to learn how to leave a message on the disaster message board…

Using the Disaster Message Boards

Thank you and stay safe!

Recently we’ve updated the HAJET PC to reflect the newly elected staff. We’ve also just updated the Publications page with pictures of the books we have (Now all books have images!). You can order the books from this page. I’ve also cleaned up some code in the past week to make the site look a tad better in both Firefox 2.0+ and MS Internet Explorer 7+.

The forum now has 90 members, but there are still plenty of JETs and ALTs in Hokkaido who haven’t registered yet. You don’t have to be a HAJET member to join, just an ALT/JET in Hokkaido! If you’ve had past experience in Hokkaido or have some other reason for wanting to join, then by all means, do so! Just don’t forget to say why in the “comments” section during the registration process. Leaving it blank could delay your registration.

That’s right! HAJET.org is back and functioning. Many thanks to Kate Allison, our returning president, for her help in compiling lots of the info and really helping to bring this site to fruition. Also, kudos to Chelle as well, for getting the site on track.
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