After the third tremor, Bull rushes into the eighteenth-floor courtroom with a "translator" he found in a tempura joint. However, the first tremor destroyed the stairs and the second disabled the elevators.
Christine tells Harry that the two sumo wrestlers don't speak any English. However, they understand when Harry asks if anyone speaks Japanese, when Christine asks about sushi, and are able to recognize the alphabet when Dan spells "Chuckles". A lot of Japanese people can understand English even if they don't speak it well or at all.