Japan Prime Minister’s Office Begins English Twitter, To Inform Disaster Information
Posted on March 16th, 2011 by Akky Akimoto
Prime Minister's Office of Japan has just annouced that they opened an official Twitter account @JPN_PMO in English.
This is the official English twitter account of Prime Minister’s Office of Japan. Most of the information provided here will be translation of @ Kantei_Saigai.
http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/index-e.html
The first tweet was "The Prime Minister's Office of Japan has launched an English twitter account from now on" at 21:16, Japan Standard Time.
As the second tweet says, the tweets are going to be about Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake and related disasters translated from @Kantei_Saigai. (Kantei = Prime Minister's Office, Saigai = disaster)
via @HYamaguchi
Author Information @akky(Akky AKIMOTO) is one of the first pro-bloggers in Japan [J]. He also leads Asiajin, writes for Japan Times, does consultation for foreign companies interested in entering Japanese web market. 
