During this hectic holiday season, it is often nice to take a step back and think about how we can help others. BAB founder Caroline Pover has come up with a lovely way to help some of the families affected by the Tohoku earthquake and is looking for support for her project: In late March [...]
March 10, 2012, is publication day for Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction—An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories (Stone Bridge Press). One year after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, this collection of short fiction brings teens worldwide closer to Japan and contributes to long-term relief efforts in Tohoku. Join SCBWI for this Tokyo Tomo [...]
(Image to left: Sleepy Chan) Share Your Christmas, a campaign to share a present with someone in Tohoku from all those received on Christmas Day last year, is still open to receive gifts for one more week. We are planning our first trip up North to start distributing them in the middle of February. It [...]
This information changes all the time so please check http://www.carolinepover.info/earthquake-mission/current-needs/ before sending anything. Then I will send you the address of the place to send things to. Many thanks! Some of the women I have met worked with their husbands and parents in family businesses centred around fishing, and no longer have jobs. They have [...]
BY RACHEL MARIKO Rachel recently travelled north to volunteer in Tohoku with one of the many supply missions regularly providing aid to the still-affected region of Japan. The following report is from a blog entry she wrote upon her return. Well, I have just celebrated my one-year anniversary of living and working here in Japan. [...]
This is a picture I found on a bus while I was in Singapore. It, for me, summarized how I felt during the earthquake – shaken up and disoriented. We, in Tokyo, are very blessed in that all that happened to us was this intense shaking. Compared to the people in Northern part of Japan [...]
BY ERIKA WISEBERG I hate to have to admit it, but I live a pretty privileged life in Tokyo- My place is just a short walk from where Princess Masako used to live before she entered the royal family and I work in Shibuya, near the brand name boutiques and upscale restaurants that line [...]
The College Women’s Association of Japan (CWAJ) established the CWAJ Great East Japan Earthquake Fund immediately after the earthquake on March 11th. Efforts were focused on distributing cash donations to support medical relief efforts, establishing mental health care support, scholarship opportunities for affected students, and the dedication of this year’s CWAJ Print Show to the [...]
Oxfam Japan’s activities to support those affected by the March 11th earthquake and tsunami have extended to a “Single Mothers’ Forum.” Occupational, legal, and emotional counselling is available to single parent families, both in person at a location in Fukushima, and also through a telephone hotline. Individual and group counselling in Tokyo and Fukushima is [...]
LA-based artist Nan Lawson has created a five-by-seven inch print reminiscent of the Japanese flag. The print retails on etsy.com for approximately ¥1,000, and all proceeds go towards the Red Cross. http://tinyurl.com/4y4hxdb
