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Let’s Bon Dance!: We need your help!
If you are hosting a bon dance, please take a moment to complete our survey so that we may list your event in our calendar. Link: Bon Dance Survey (Let’s Bon Dance)
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Salvation Army: Army for Japan t-shirt
I’m a t-shirt guy and if buying one helps out Salvation Army’s relief efforts in Japan, I’m in. It’s $20 plus shipping and you can pre-order your t-shirt here. 100% of the proceeds of the sales of the t-shirt will go towards the Salvation Army’s relief efforts in Japan.
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Champuru.net: Prayers and Support for Japan
With images of the devastation in Japan fresh on my mind, I stayed up until 4am that morning to see what nature would bring to our shores. The tsunami was not nearly as powerful as the one that swept through Japan, and although there was some property damage, Hawaii was very fortunate not to suffer…
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Ryukyu Golden Kings will be seeking donations for victims of the earthquake and tsunami
Ryukyu Golden Kings and Ryukyu Jusco Co., Ltd. will be seeking donations to help earthquake and tsunami victims in the north east Japan. Monetary donations will be accepted in donation boxes located in all AEON and Max Valu stores in Okinawa from March 13 to March 31. Members of the Kings family to include Players…
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Tokyograph: GACKT launches earthquake relief fund
Singer GACKT is using his influence to help earthquake relief efforts, establishing a new emergency donation fund called ‘SHOW YOUR HEART.’ The fund was organized with cooperation from popular online gaming portal Hangame, and a special webpage has been launched for the fund. […] The donations, which are being accepted through a Sumitomo Mitsui bank…
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American Red Cross Text Donations: Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami
Txt REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation to #Japan eq & Pacific #tsunami relief. http://bit.ly/eZJDoJ — American Red Cross (@RedCross) March 11, 2011 More info on texting your donation can be found on this American Red Cross page. (Received word that my family in Okinawa as well as my cousin and her family…
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Web: Japan Update launches Okistyle.com, a guide to Okinawa
Japan Update recently launched a new website that they bill as a guide to Okinawa called OkiStyle. So far, they only have information for housing in Okinawa so it’ll be exciting to see the other things they come up with for the site. OkiStyle Follow them on Twitter too: @japanupdate.
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Tokyograph: Morning Musume’s Niigaki Risa cast in ninth “Twilight File” omnibus
An audition announcement has revealed that Morning Musume member Niigaki Risa (22) is set to appear in a movie tentatively titled ‘Bad Days Reason,’ part of the omnibus ‘Twilight File IX.’ Specific details about the film are not yet known, but shooting is scheduled to start in fall 2011, presumably for a 2012 release. […]…
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Okinawans are lazy, exortionists? Shame on Maher. (via Grits and Sushi)
Some of you readers may have already heard the news about U.S. Diplomat Kevin Maher's racist remarks about Okinawans to a group of students at the State Department. Maher was head of the Japanese Affairs Office and Former Consul General in Okinawa which makes his comments even more a tragedy for Okinawans and the US.…
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Jetpack to the WP.com Cloud (via Jetpack)
No one really gets the distinction between the two things called WordPress at first, the dot-com and the dot-org. On dot-com in just a few clicks you're set up on a web-scale centralized platform that constantly gets new upgrades and features. And you never have to worry about it because it’s completely hassle-free and completely…
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