Friday, March 11, 2011

Japan: a tool to search for missing persons

Japanese telephone networks are saturated or disturbed, the Internet takes over to help locate persons whose whereabouts are unknown in Japan following the earthquake that struck the country. Besides social networking, Japan Person Finder, a tool introduced by Google, allows users to report their situation and those of people they are.

This database is accessible to families and friends without news of their relatives, who can do a search using the name of the missing person. The site is available in Japanese and English. At the time of this writing, 1,200 people are reported, but the figure is increasing at a rate of 200 additional people every five minutes.

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