Fire Alarms in Japan

In Japan, a typical fire alarm system will have an indicator lamp mounted above or near the manual initiating device. I believe in the Japanese fire protection engineering world these are sometimes called “transmitters” ostensibly because they transmit a manual fire alarm signal back to the fire alarm panel.
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In this particular example, to the right of the call point and indicator lamp, is a bell. These are pretty common, and many older electric fire alarm systems in Japan were the “break glass, ring bell” type. Pressing any call point would ring all of the bells behind all of the call point stations. Newer systems also include voice notification, as evidenced by videos like this. The announcement “火事です” (ph. “Kaji desu!”) means “There is a fire!”.

To the left of the call point is a fire extinguisher cabinet, and underneath appears to be a hose reel/standpipe cabinet.

Occasionally, you can also see standalone bells strewn throughout some systems:

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I remember seeing some bells like that in the school i went to in japan but i never heard them activate. The general PA speakers would be used to play an evacuation message. The school i went to after that had sort of a 2 stage system where the system would play a pre evacuation message and then when the fire was verified it would go into full evacuation. And it had both an english and japanese message. Voice evac message was usually like “there is a fire(x2) an emergency has happened evacuate calmly”
(kinda off topic but the public elementary school i went to would always use fog machines to simulate smoke during fire drills. just thought it was kinda interesting.)

Many systems in Japan don’t have bells, they just use voice-evacuation. (In such a case, the cabinet may still have a bell grille but it’ll be empty. Or they’ll use a cabinet that doesn’t have the bell grill.)