Charity Event Reports (Part 1)

Saturday, 19 March @ Whittlesea Festival, Lalor
A group of Japanese mothers opened a stall of the second hand goods to raise funds for Japan.

Tuesday, 22 March @ St Philip Church, Abbotsford
Wadaiko Rindo held their special charity concert at a church. Mr. Sakamoto and his members asked for donations to support Japan, wearing their original 'Help Heal Japan T-shirt'.

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Tohoku Kanto Earthquake / Tsunami Disaster Update

According to the report from the Tokyo Police, it is confirmed that 9408 people have been killed and 14716 people are still missing across 12 prefectures. The most affected prefectures by tsunami are Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi. The number of people who were staying in an emergency evacuation area has decreased from 430,000 down to 230,000.

The Japanese government has announced that the amount of the damage from this disaster is at least 25 billion yen (approx. 3.1 billion AU dollars) by estimate.

(Mainichi Newspaper / Sankei Newspaper)

Welcome to Ganbare Nippon Blog

Thank you very much for visiting our 'Ganbare Nippon' page. Ganbare means 'hang in there' and 'good luck'. Nippon is how Japanese call their own country. We are here to give Japan support to 'hang in there' and 'bounce back' from their loss again. Ganbare Nippon!! We are all in this together.

Through this blog, we would like to provide the updated news about the Japan Crisis, the information regarding local charity events in Victoria, as well as our Red Cross fundraising webpage and some benefits you will receive by donating for Japan through our webpage.