富士山每年吸引数以万计的外国游客，但许多人却忘记了这座日本最高峰是一座活火山。随着喷发风险始终存在，一个关键问题随之浮现：在发生灾难时，如何才能安全疏散这些游客？
Mount Fuji attracts thousands of foreign tourists each year, but many forget that Japan’s highest peak is an active volcano. With the risk of an eruption ever-present, a critical question looms: how could such visitors be evacuated safely in the event of a disaster?
周四，来自地方政府、国家各部委、交通运输企业、航空公司以及外国驻日使馆的约150名参与者聚集在山梨县的门户城镇富士河口湖町，共同探讨这一问题。
On Thursday, around 150 participants from local governments, national ministries, transportation companies, airlines and foreign embassies convened in the gateway town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, to examine this very question.
富士河口湖町长渡边英幸表示：“虽然旅游业为我们的小镇带来了经济效益，但我认为，我们在享受这些经济效益的同时，必须认识到确保游客能够安全疏散所涉及的巨大挑战。”
“While tourism brings economic benefits to our town, I believe we cannot simply celebrate those benefits without recognizing the enormous challenges involved in ensuring that tourists can evacuate safely,” said Fujikawaguchiko Mayor Hideyuki Watanabe.
该团体进行了一场桌面推演，模拟气象厅将富士山的火山喷发警戒级别提升至五级制中的第3级，从而限制进入山区并促使登山者下山、游客离开该地区的情况。
The group conducted a tabletop drill, simulating an event where the Meteorological Agency raised the volcanic alert level for Mount Fuji to Level 3 on its five-level scale, restricting entry to the mountain and prompting climbers to descend and tourists to leave the area.
根据该设想，假设场景为7月的一个繁忙周六下午，大约有2000名国际游客滞留在河口湖车站周边。
Under the scenario, which assumed a busy Saturday afternoon in July, approximately 2,000 international tourists were stranded around Kawaguchiko Station.
团体参与者探讨了如何利用公交车和观光船疏散游客，随后协助他们前往机场并最终回国。
Group participants examined how the tourists could be evacuated using buses and sightseeing boats, before being assisted with onward travel to airports and eventually their home countries.
讨论还涵盖了如何防止交通枢纽被同时寻求逃离的当地居民和外国游客挤爆。
Discussions also covered how to prevent transportation hubs from being overwhelmed by both local residents and foreign visitors seeking to flee simultaneously.
官员们表示，一艘观光船可以搭载大约150名乘客，并在约15分钟内穿过附近的湖泊，这可能为挤满疏散人员的道路提供一条替代路线。
Officials said a sightseeing boat could carry approximately 150 passengers and cross the nearby lake in around 15 minutes, potentially providing an alternative to roads congested with evacuees.
在语言障碍问题上，总务省官员提出了支持33种语言的免费翻译应用程序VoiceTra，将其作为一种潜在的解决方案。
On the issue of language barriers, officials from the internal affairs ministry raised VoiceTra, a free translation app that supports 33 languages, as a potential solution.
但这款由日本国立信息和通信技术研究所开发的应用程序依赖于云服务，这引发了人们对其在互联网服务和其他通信基础设施中断时的有效性的质疑。
But the app, developed by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, relies on cloud services, raising questions about its effectiveness if internet services and other communication infrastructure are disrupted.
工作组还审议了如何与各国使馆进行有效协调和沟通，以帮助外国公民返回祖国。
The working group also reviewed how to coordinate and communicate effectively with embassies to help foreign nationals return to their home countries.
地球科学家、该工作组主席藤井敏嗣在演习结束后对记者表示，协调大量外国游客的疏散是一个仅靠单个市町村或都道府县无法解决的挑战，并呼吁中央政府更多地参与进来。
Geoscientist Toshitsugu Fujii, chairman of the working group, told reporters following the exercise that coordinating the evacuation of large numbers of foreign visitors was a challenge that could not be resolved by individual municipalities or prefectures alone, calling for greater involvement from the national government.
藤井警告称：“如果发生喷发……道路拥堵，人们无法疏散……这可能会演变成一场可怕的灾难。我们需要提前应对这些挑战。”山梨县政府计划整理演习中发现的问题，并研究如何将这些调查结果体现在防灾计划中。
“If an eruption occurs … and roads get congested and people can’t evacuate … it could become a terrible disaster,” Fujii warned. “We need to address these challenges in advance.”The Yamanashi Prefectural Government plans to compile the issues identified during the exercise and consider how the findings could be reflected in its disaster prevention plans.