About this site

Purpose

Tomoshibi Atlas ("Atlas of Lights") is a collection of links that places published information on infectious diseases, mental health and welfare, and medical research on the same globe as security threats to AI (SI), IT and social systems, and information on disasters and crime. By looking at people's health and the troubles of systems and society side by side, it aims to make their connections easier to notice and to help people prepare to live better.

"Lights" are information about the systems that support people's health and daily lives. "Warnings" are information that needs attention: threats to the IT and AI that run those systems, and disasters and crime. On screen, lights carry a small flame mark and warnings a triangular caution mark. For example, if a hospital's or a welfare office's systems are shut down by a cyberattack, the care and support themselves stop. "Research & Response" also includes results achieved with AI and official security, disaster and crime prevention measures.

US Executive Order 14434 (signed on 29 September 2026; text on the White House website) directed US executive departments and agencies to use "SI" (Super Intelligence) in place of "AI" (artificial intelligence) in official correspondence, websites, reports and similar documents, to the extent permitted by law. It applies to the US executive branch and does not change the term worldwide. This site treats information labelled SI as information about AI (marked "AI-related"). Because the abbreviation "SI" has other meanings, entries always explain it, for example "Super Intelligence (SI), the US federal government's term for AI", and only items confirmed from the original's context to be about AI are listed. The site takes no position on which name is correct.

Welfare guides, security steps and more

Welfare: where to ask for help

The site also lists official places to ask for help with each country's support systems. Choose the Mental health & Welfare tab and select your country on the globe or by search; a list of official links organised by type of problem appears at the bottom.

Welfare guide and Today's animals

To help people looking for welfare support in Japan, a guide to official services by topic and by prefecture is also available; it also links to official disaster information (the Japan Meteorological Agency, hazard maps and each prefecture's disaster page). As a gentle corner, "Today's animals" shows small animal facts from around the world that change every day.

There is also a "Compare the world" page that lists official statistics on poverty, inequality, the economy, unemployment, prices, drinking water and sanitation, and education by country (World Bank). Values are retrieved automatically with the survey year and source; countries without a value are shown as "No data" and are never filled with estimates.

The "See how information connects" page arranges published items by theme, such as child poverty, impersonation scams, and heat and health, in a diagram and a list. A line only means "grouped under the same theme"; it does not show cause and effect.

For those looking for a moment of calm, the top page starts with "Today's animals" (fun facts about animals) and shows a short message when the site is newly opened (close it with the button, the Esc key or by selecting outside it). It is not shown when you reload the page or return to the globe from another page of this site. Nothing is stored in your browser for this, so the message appears each time you newly open the site in your browser. Other topics can be selected with the buttons at the top.

Open the list of Today's animals (goes to the globe and opens today's animal list)

IT security: steps you can take

Besides threat information, the site will add steps that individuals using computers and smartphones can take, based on information from public bodies. See Security steps you can take.

How mental health, infectious diseases and research connect

Countries and international bodies are working on using AI and other tools to detect illness earlier, spot early signs of outbreaks and advance drug research. In Japan, for example, research to help detect depression and other conditions earlier has been selected under a public research programme for implementing AI (examples from FY2021). At the same time, there has been a case in Japan where a hospital's systems were stopped by a cyberattack and it suspended new outpatients (2022).

This site lets you switch between these research developments (Research & Response), the infectious diseases and mental health concerns actually occurring, and the security of the IT that supports them (IT security), while staying on the same region.

Sources: WHO: first global report on AI in health (June 2021) / WHO: launch of the Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence (May 2021) / AMED: FY2021 projects on implementing AI in medicine (Japanese) / Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare: material on a cyberattack on a medical institution (Dec 2022, Japanese)

Disclaimer (please read)

AI is used to help prepare and check content. Content prepared with AI is checked against the original sources (including checks by a separate AI) and published with the operator's approval, but it may still contain errors. If you notice an error, please let us know through the feedback form.

• In an emergency, do not rely on this site. Contact your local emergency number (in Japan, 119 for ambulance/fire and 110 for police), a medical facility or an official help service directly. This site does not provide consultation or emergency response.
• The directory of official contacts lists sites confirmed as official on the date checked, but contact details, opening hours, eligibility and the content of services may change. Always check the latest information on the linked site before using it. Some services are not listed.
• IT security information is provided so that users can check what to do. It does not include how to carry out attacks or details usable in attacks. Always follow the official guidance of the vendor or public authorities.
• Links to X (formerly Twitter) and other social media are for reference only. Only official accounts of public bodies, as listed on each body's official website, are linked (there are no links to general searches). This site does not collect, store or display social media posts. Posts on social media are created and managed by third parties, not by the operator, and may contain errors, false information or impersonation.
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Date of the current data

Sources and update methods

Automatic retrieval does not use generative AI. Headlines containing words such as "AI", "artificial intelligence" or "deepfake" are marked "AI-related" by a fixed rule so that you can use "Show AI-related only" in the list (the mark depends only on the words, not on any assessment of the content). A fixed program extracts only headlines, dates and links, and only links to URLs of approved public bodies are published. The full text of the original sources is not reproduced. To avoid placing a burden on the sources, each source is accessed on schedule three times a day (morning and evening), and also when the site is updated.

Nature of information (a guide to how certain it is)

Each item has a small label showing what kind of information it is. The label is not an assessment of whether the content is correct. For items added by hand, the operator decides the label after checking the original; for automatically retrieved items, it is decided by the source.

• Official announcement: information from the publishing body. It may be updated later (automatically retrieved headlines from public bodies are in this group).
• Statistics: results of an official survey or count (including estimates from sample surveys such as household surveys). Check the survey year and definitions in the original.
• Estimate / projection: a calculation based on a model or assumptions (such as future projections or model-based estimates by international organisations). It is not necessarily a final figure or a forecast.
• Preliminary: figures as of the time they were compiled. They may be updated or revised later (all earthquakes carry this label because epicentres and magnitudes include automatically determined values).
• Peer-reviewed research: a paper reviewed by experts. It is the result of one study, not necessarily an established fact.
• Developer announcement: the product developer's own announcement, not an independent verification.
• Fun fact: a "Today's animals" item checked against sources such as public museums and zoos.

When one item contains figures of different kinds, the label follows the main figure in the headline, and the summary says which figures are estimates or provisional.

Item details also include "What you can do next" (general guidance). For individual decisions, follow the original and the guidance of public bodies.

Display rules

What the position on the globe means

• Infectious diseases: shown at the country named in the headline of the report. Reports whose country could not be identified automatically, or that cover the whole world, are listed but not placed on the globe.
• IT security: shown at the country of the publishing agency. This does not indicate where an attack occurred or where it came from. Because the CISA catalogue is published by a US agency, vulnerabilities in products from any country appear at the United States on the globe.
• Research & Response, Mental health & Welfare, Crime prevention and Disasters: shown at the country covered by the original source. Automatic headlines (such as NCSC) are shown at the country of the publishing body.
• Earthquakes: the country is taken from the location text published by USGS (for example "…, Japan"). Earthquakes at sea or elsewhere without a country are listed but not placed on the globe.

What the text size means

Text size is not a rating of severity or danger. It follows these fixed rules:

• Infectious diseases: reports published within the last 14 days are shown larger (normally listed for up to 120 days)
• IT security (CISA): vulnerabilities known to be exploited in ransomware are shown larger (normally listed for up to 30 days after being added)
• IT security (JPCERT/CC alerts and IPA important security information): all shown larger (normally listed for up to 30 days). Retrieved automatically three times a day; if they cannot be retrieved, the status line at the bottom of the screen says so.
• Research & Response, Mental health & Welfare, Crime prevention and Disasters: set by the operator based on the nature of the source (for example, a major international report)
• Earthquakes and automatic headlines: those published (or occurring) within 7 days are shown larger (this is not a rating of size or damage)
• Older items shown only to keep the number of items up (see "Number of items" below) are always shown smaller

Number of items

Each section shows roughly 20 to 100 items, so that slightly older items do not disappear too quickly when there is a lot of news. Up to 100 of the newest items within the normal listing period are shown; if there are fewer than 20, slightly older items (up to 2 years for infectious diseases and 1 year for IT security) are added in smaller text, newest first. As new information arrives, the oldest items drop off. Research & Response and Mental health & Welfare show up to 100 of the newest items; Crime prevention and Disasters show up to 100 of the newest items within 90 days (topped up with items from the past 180 days if there are fewer than 20; automatic headlines have a limit per source so that manually added warnings are not pushed out); Earthquakes shows up to 100 of the newest earthquakes of magnitude 5.5 or more in the past 30 days; Today's animals shows 20 each day. If the original sources have not published that many, there may be fewer than 20 (we never make up items to reach a count).

Earlier reports

When a newer report is published for the same topic, area and subject, the older one stays visible, faded and labelled "Earlier report (a newer one exists)", until 7 days after its own publication date, and is then removed. (If the older report was already published more than 7 days earlier, it is removed when the newer one appears.) "Same area" means the newer report covers every country of the older one (for example, an older report on Japan is superseded by a newer report on Japan and Korea, but an older report on Japan and Korea is not superseded by a newer report on Japan alone). Only the latest report appears in the headlines on the globe. Information published more than 30 days ago is labelled as such.

Welfare entries

Challenges in each area's systems are written as the view of the cited report ("According to …"), not as this site's own assessment. They do not rank countries or areas.

Official links by country (support and expert bodies)

When you select a country, the bottom of the details shows links to official sites of public bodies and similar organisations in that country (welfare support, mental health support, cybersecurity agencies, research institutions and official infectious disease information), plus worldwide official information. Only links with a record that AI or the operator actually opened the page and confirmed it as official are shown, each with the date it was checked. Links without such a record, or that could not be confirmed, are not shown until they are confirmed. Whether and how many links a country or region has reflects only how far checking has progressed, not any political judgement. Besides Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom and worldwide information, health, welfare and cybersecurity bodies of other countries are being added step by step; countries not yet checked show "being prepared". Details and contact information can change, so please check the latest information on each linked site.

Borders, country and region names

Borders, country names and region names on the map follow the way maps are generally drawn in Japan, using the "Point of View: Japan" edition of the public Natural Earth map data. Shapes are simplified for the globe, so small islands and fine border details may be inaccurate or not shown. We may not be able to respond to requests to change how borders or names are shown. These representations do not indicate any political position of the operator regarding sovereignty or the status of any country or region.

Day and night

The dark side of the globe is where it is currently night, and the faint orange band is around sunrise or sunset. This is an approximation calculated from the date and time; no external data is used.

About translation

This site can be shown in Japanese or English. To avoid misunderstanding:

• English headlines retrieved automatically (WHO, CISA) are shown exactly as published in the English display. In the Japanese display, only disease names found in a fixed glossary are shown in Japanese; everything else stays in the original English (no machine translation is used).
• Information published only in Japanese (such as JPCERT/CC alerts) is shown in Japanese in the English display, labelled "Japanese only".
• Summaries added by the operator are prepared in both Japanese and English and checked to have the same meaning before publication.
• If the Japanese and English text differ, the original source linked from each entry is authoritative.

Privacy

This site uses no analytics, advertising, cookies, browser storage or third-party embeds. Simply viewing the site does not collect visitors' personal information (what is sent through the feedback form, including the email address, is handled as described under "Feedback" below). The only communication with an outside server is the earthquake data described below.

• Country and area searches are processed entirely in your browser; what you type is never sent anywhere.
• Only if you press "My location" will your browser ask for permission to use your location. If allowed, the location is rounded to about 10 km and used only to move the globe and estimate day or night. It is never sent or stored, and it is discarded when you close the page. The country or area estimated from your location is not written into the shareable URL (?country=…) either.
• The display language is selected through the URL (?lang=en); no setting is saved.
• Only while the Earthquakes section is open, your browser loads public data from the U.S. Geological Survey (earthquake.usgs.gov) directly to show the latest earthquakes (at most once every 10 minutes). As with opening any web page, your IP address and browser type reach the USGS server (the USGS policies apply). No cookies, referrer or anything you type is sent, and this site does not receive that communication.
• When you open external links, the page you came from (the referrer) is not sent.
• If you use external services such as the feedback form (Google Forms) or X (formerly Twitter), their own policies apply. Apart from receiving what you submit through the form (including the respondent's email address), this site does not collect information about visitors.

This site is hosted on GitHub Pages. According to GitHub, the IP address of visitors to GitHub Pages sites is logged and stored for security purposes, whether or not they are signed in to GitHub (GitHub's privacy policy applies). The operator does not obtain or use those logs.

Safety in operation

Beware of impersonation. This site and its operator will never contact you to ask for personal information, passwords or money (including tips). (Because the feedback form is shared with other purposes, it has an email address field. The form does not send automatic reply emails.) If someone contacts you by email, social media or phone claiming to be this site or its operator (Yutaka Yoshioka), do not respond. As a rule, we do not reply to messages about this site (see "Feedback" below).

We do not link to sites that may be unsafe. Many visitors are in difficulty or anxious, so links go only to official sites of governments, local authorities, public bodies and international organisations, and to social welfare councils (non-profit social welfare corporations that promote local welfare). We do not link to sites that show certificate warnings, do not load, show signs of tampering, pages that ask you to download files, log in or pay, private or personal sites, or short URLs. Organisations with a public role (such as a government-funded crisis line or a national CERT designated by law) may be listed, with how they are run stated in the description. Links are checked automatically every week after publication and removed if a problem is found. When in doubt, we leave a link out. For countries and regions affected by war or conflict, each official site is reviewed individually: public information that helps people living there (health care, livelihood support, safety information and so on) is listed, while pages that include calls for military cooperation or similar content are not.

Preventing misuse: IT security information is limited to what public bodies have already published (such as vulnerabilities confirmed to be exploited, with official remediation guidance). The site does not publish how to carry out attacks, attack code, details usable in attacks (such as IP addresses or file hashes), undisclosed or unpatched vulnerabilities, or system details of individual affected organisations. To prevent misuse, vulnerability reports are added only after the vendor, government or public bodies have published countermeasures (such as a fix or workaround). Information sent to us before countermeasures are published will not be posted (if you find a vulnerability, please report it to the product vendor or, in Japan, to IPA's reporting service). Automated checks block such content before publication. Information retrieved automatically every day (WHO, CISA) is published after these automated checks only, without human review; information added manually is reviewed by the operator before publication.

• This is a static site with no server, login, input forms or API keys.
• Automatic updates (infectious diseases and IT security) use only a fixed program and do not pass external text to generative AI.
• If retrieval from the main sources (WHO, CISA) or the checks on the published data fail, publication stops and the previous content remains. If only a supplementary source (USGS earthquakes, or headlines from JPCERT/CC, IPA, NCSC, FSA, FTC, FDMA, NASA or NIH) cannot be retrieved, the site is still updated with the other information, and the status line at the bottom of the screen names the source that could not be retrieved.
• Changes prepared by AI (manually added information, the link directory and so on) are published only with the operator's approval. The link directory shows only links with a check record, as described above. Information retrieved automatically every day by fixed procedures (WHO, CISA) is published after automated checks only.

Feedback, corrections and update notices

• Please send error reports, correction requests and suggestions through the feedback form (Google Forms, in Japanese; your email address is sent to the operator) where possible (please read the note below before opening it). As a rule, we do not reply to messages about this site (we only check them and act where needed). Changes may take time or may not be possible. Important changes will be announced on X (below) where possible.
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• New features may be added in the future. Suggestions for features you would like are welcome through the same form, but we cannot promise whether or when they will be implemented.
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Update history

Manually added items are kept even after they leave the globe. You can look back through them by year, section, country or keyword in the archive of past items (automatically retrieved items are not stored).

Sources and licences

• WHO Disease Outbreak News: the original English headline, date, country and a link to the original are shown. Body text is not reproduced.
• Japanese disease names and short summaries based on WHO and other sources were created by this site from the original sources. They were not created or checked by WHO or the other original authors, who are not responsible for their content or accuracy. If there is any difference, the original source is the authentic version. Use is non-commercial and sources are always credited. Information on the WHO website (news, Disease Outbreak News and so on) is used in line with the WHO website terms of use: WHO and the page URL are always credited, and use is limited to showing headlines and short summaries of facts written in this site's own words (no body text is reproduced or translated). In line with WHO's policy, adaptations of WHO publications (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO) are offered under the similar licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. This adaptation was not created by WHO. WHO is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this adaptation. The original edition shall be the binding and authentic edition. The WHO logo is not used, and WHO does not endorse this site. For terms of use of WHO materials, see the WHO copyright page.
• Materials from Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW): each item shows its source (title and URL) in line with the ministry's website terms of use (Japanese). Summaries and extracted figures were edited and prepared by this site from those materials; they were not created by the ministry.
• CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog: public data from the US CISA, provided under CC0 1.0 in CISA's public repository. The CISA logo is not used, and CISA does not endorse this site. Detail links for each vulnerability go to the US NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD).
• Earthquake information: public data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a US government work that may be used freely with credit under USGS policy. USGS does not endorse this site.
• Headlines from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC): used under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (source: NCSC; headline, date and link only; no logos). NCSC does not endorse this site.
• Headlines from Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) and disaster-report headlines from the Fire and Disaster Management Agency (FDMA): used under the Public Data License (Version 1.0), in line with each agency's website rules (FSA, FDMA); source: FSA website / FDMA website, with a link to the original page for each headline. Headlines are shown as published. The choice of headlines (for the FSA, only fraud and unregistered-business warnings) and their ordering and grouping are this site's own and were not made by the Japanese government. No logos are used.
• Press-release headlines from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC): used as US government works with attribution (Source: United States Federal Trade Commission, www.ftc.gov), in line with the FTC's website policy. No FTC logo or seal is used, and the FTC does not endorse this site.
• News-release headlines from NASA: used for informational purposes with NASA credited as the source, in line with NASA's media usage guidelines (headline, date and link only). No NASA insignia or logo is used, and NASA does not endorse this site.
• News-release headlines from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH): as the NIH FAQ explains, most information on its public site is in the public domain; NIH is credited with a link to each original (headline, date and link only). No NIH logo is used, and NIH does not endorse this site.
• Alert headlines from JPCERT/CC: used with attribution in line with its RSS page, which says anyone may use the feeds freely (headline, date and link only).
• "Important security information" headlines from IPA (Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan): used with attribution in line with IPA's site policy (linking is generally free; the source must be shown when quoting) — headline, date and link only, no logos or article text. Advance notices of upcoming fixes ("please prepare") are not shown.
• Map data: Natural Earth (public domain; the "Point of View: Japan" edition, simplified)
• Globe rendering: d3-geo and d3-array (ISC licence, bundled with the site)

About crime prevention, disaster and earthquake information

This site is not a source of information for emergencies. Earthquake and disaster information is retrieved from public data three times a day (for earthquakes, your browser also loads the latest list while the section is open); preliminary figures may be revised later and may not reflect the latest situation. In a disaster or incident, follow the information and instructions of your national weather agency, local government, police and fire services. In a life-threatening emergency in Japan, call 119 (ambulance/fire) or 110 (police) without hesitation.

Crime and fraud information is limited to warnings and statistics published by public bodies such as the police and consumer authorities. Names of individuals, detailed methods, and information that could identify victims or suspects are not listed.

• Japan Meteorological Agency: disaster prevention information (warnings, earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons; in Japanese)
• Japan Government PR Online: crime prevention (police consultation line #9110 and more; in Japanese)
• Japan Government PR Online: Consumer Hotline 188 (fraud and contract problems; in Japanese)

If you are struggling

Please do not carry it alone. Contact a local support line or emergency service in your country. In Japan, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's "Mamorou yo Kokoro" site (in Japanese) lists phone and social media support services. For other countries, the Mental health & Welfare section of each country on the globe lists official information where it has been confirmed (only confirmed links are shown, so some countries have none yet), and the WHO mental health page has general information.