Mar 18

Helpful info and links from the Japan Foundation (NY)

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Via Tatsuaki Kobayashi, Deputy Director General for the Japan Foundation in New York:

• The Japan Foundation New York posted the information about major sites of donation in our website. Please share the information with your friends.   http://www.jfny.org/links/donation.html
• My colleagues of the Japan Foundation New York also started new web site for charity activities in New York  http://nycaresforjapan.com/
• US Japan Institute, the think tank of Japanese universities coalition based in DC, will organize the seminar about earthquake.  http://www.us-jpri.org/en/seminar_tanaka_0406.html
• Foundation Center also opens up information site about donation to Japan .  http://maps.foundationcenter.org/japan/rss/
• USA today’s article “ US donations not rushing to Japan ” give us some insights for the reason why the Japanese efforts to get donation for tsunami is not going well.   http://yourlife.usatoday.com/mind-soul/doing-good/story/2011/03/Us-donations-not-rushing-to-japan/44961802/1
• Agency for Cultural Affairs announced the brief report about the damage of cultural properties. Japanese newspapers also started to report that museums in the afflicted area also suffered a lot from the disaster.  http://www.bunka.go.jp/english/pdf/2011_Tohoku.pdf