安全とサポート - Safety & Support

🌸 Personal safety

Burning Japan presents unique challenges; be ready to take charge of your own well-being, including understanding your limits with substances. Remember, prioritizing rest, nutrition, hydration, and basic necessities is crucial. Take things at your own pace; it's not a competition. Your well-being is your responsibility.

🚒 In case of fire

• Alert others of the fire, by yelling “Fire! Help!”
• All camps should have a water buckets available; locate it and, if safe to do so, attempt to put out the fire.
• If you are unable to extinguish the fire, contact the organization and the Fire brigade on 119. Advise them that you are at Tsumagoi-Bokujo.
• If the fire continues, evacuate the area via the nearest fire road, to a safe distance following instructions from organization.

🚨Authorities & inspections

Authorities might be doing inspections for compliance with safety rules during the event; so please take them seriously and do your best to comply. Although some rules may be annoying, the big picture is that the authorities have been very accommodating. Let's not create problems for them, us or each other.

Support

🆘Emergency and first aid

Emergency phone number in Japan: 119

🏩Center Camp

This is the place where your body, mind and psyche can find safety or healing. You can step by it for a warm cup of tea, a chat, ears to listen, a sitter, plaster, band aid, a hug or support to get more professional help. There are no doctors or nurses on-call, meaning self-reliant first aid so remember to bring your own First aid kit for you and your camp.

🤝The Rangers

They are here to help. They have hugs, answers to your questions, immediate access to emergency services, they provide information about hazards and safety issues, they mediate situations and/or disputes between participants if such would occur and they address and report any instances of non-consensual physical assault. Just look for the Yellow Vest.

If you need to find the rangers, there is always some at the Center Camp.

Having a hard day?

Everyone else seems so happy and you not? We all have had that early/late slump. It's ok. Expect it, sleep, rest, ride it, work it, hug it. If you feel isolated/alone: take a shift, build, work, help someone somewhere. Lift the stuff, Shit shifts - getting into service of something else outside of ourselves and getting practical- helps us connect back. There is also, attend a strange workshop, take an aimless walk, visit the sanctuary. You gonna be ok.