Community FM stations in Japan should be preserved as a source of information during times of calamity.

The Great Hanshin Earthquake that ravaged Kobe and the surrounding area 28 years ago has finally been fully recovered from. To have an information transmission tool that developed in the wake of the accident weakened after serving the public for nearly three decades would be extremely concerning. Multiple community FM stations in the Kansai area have shut down, leaving listeners without access to the essentially municipal-level radio broadcast....