Japanese government has a lot of social
media accounts in each ministry and agency. According to Japan’s e-government
portal website, the number of Facebook account is 36 and the number of Twitter
account is 54 in April 2015. I quickly check these accounts and realized that
the most followed account is the Prime Minister’s Official Residence account for disaster
and crisis management information which followers are 1.3 million. On the other
hand, the Prime Minister’s Official Residence account’s followers are around
0.4 million although its number of tweet is around twice as disaster’s one.
Cabinet Office also has a twitter account
for disaster prevention and it has 0.15 million followers. This disaster
prevention twitter account mainly disseminates natural disaster information
such as earthquake, volcanic eruption, typhoon, floods, heavy snow etc. On the other
hand, Prime Minister’s Official Residence account for disaster and crisis
management information account disseminate terrorism and infectious disease information
as well as natural disaster information. This Prime Minister’s Official
Residence account for disaster and crisis management information account
retweet other ministries tweet related to disaster information, so citizens can
see all other information from different ministries on PC screen. It is very
convenient for them.
However, these accounts are used for only
announcement for now. In crisis situation, in order to grasp accurate
information about damages, government can cooperate with citizens and other
organizations. For example, gathering information about hospital availability
and communicate with rescue team. It is important to make relationship and to
trust between government and other organization.
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