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Japanese Emperor donates 100 million yen of his private spending money to charities

Dale Roll
Apr 10, 2020
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The emperor hopes to support efforts to eliminate child poverty and organizations that aid those affected by disasters.

Japan
(charity • COK • disasters • donation • Emperor • Emperor Naruhito • poverty)

You can help survivors of Japan’s 3.11 earthquake/tsunami in seconds with a quick Yahoo! search

Casey Baseel
Mar 11, 2020

Donations will be made for each person who runs a search for information about the tragedy, with funds helping farmers, students, and those suffering from depression and loneliness.

Japan
(2011 earthquake and tsunami • 3.11 • charity • disasters • donation • search for 3.11 • Tohoku • Yahoo! Japan)

X Japan’s Yoshiki makes large donation for Australian wildfire relief, rainforest conservation

Casey Baseel
Jan 15, 2020

J-rock legend calls on others to commit to conservation and sustainability.

Japan
(Australia wildfires • charity • COK • conservation • donation • ecology • music • musicians • Yoshiki)

Kyoto Animation closing donation account for arson attack victims soon

Casey Baseel
Dec 23, 2019

If you want to help the victims of the fire and their families, now is the time.

Japan
(anime • arson • donation • Kyoto Animation • Kyoto Animation arson attack)

KFC Japan is heart-warming and finger-licking good with new food donation program for poor kids

Casey Baseel
Nov 25, 2019

Becomes first major restaurant chain in Japan to provide cooked food to “children’s cafeteria” facilities.

Japan
(charity • children's cafeterias • COK • donation • fast food • food • fried chicken • KFC • kodomo shokudo • moving • society • touching)

Crowdfunding campaign opens to rebuild fire-ravaged Shuri Castle, raises over 290 million yen

Casey Baseel
Nov 5, 2019

Governor of Okinawa gives hoped-for target date for repair of symbol of Okinawa.

Japan
(castles • crowdfunding • culture • donation • fire • history • Naha • Okinawa • Shuri Castle)

X Japan’s Yoshiki apologizes for donating “only” 10 million yen after hometown is hit by typhoon

Casey Baseel
Sep 19, 2019

Legendary J-rocker officially reveals his hometown for the first time.

Japan
(charity • Chiba • donation • music • Tateyama • typhoon • Typhoon Faxai • Yoshiki)

Video game maker/Kyoto Animation creative partner Key donates 10 million yen to arson relief fund

Casey Baseel
Aug 10, 2019

Clannad creators hope Kyoto Animation will continue to “give courage to people in Japan and throughout the world.”

Japan
(anime • arson • charity • crime • donation • Kyoto Animation • moving • touching • video games)

X Japan leader Yoshiki donates 10 million yen to Kyoto Animation arson recovery fund

Casey Baseel
Aug 2, 2019

Legendary musician expresses deep gratitude to anime industry and its fans.

Japan
(anime • arson • donation • Kyoto Animation • music • X Japan • Yoshiki)

Kyoto Animation official donation account raises over 1 billion yen (US$10.1 million) in one week

Casey Baseel
Aug 1, 2019

Over 50,000 donors have contributed, but recovery costs could still be several times the amount.

Japan
(anime • arson • charity • crime • donation • Kyoto Animation)

Japanese netizen backs out of initial promise to donate one million yen to Palestinian refugees

Koh Ruide
Jan 13, 2019

Noble goal of promoting music education shadowed by personal needs.

Japan
(charity • debt • donation • embassy • Japanese Twitter • lucky • money • Palestine)

Out-of-cash otaku? In Japan, you can exchange your blood for cool anime posters this summer

Casey Baseel
Jul 13, 2016

If you’re an anime fan, it turns out you’ve got red gold pumping through your veins!

Japan
(anime • blood • blood drive • donation • Red Cross • weird)

Pro gamer Daigo Umehara donates tournament winnings to New York University like a shoryuken Santa

Casey Baseel
Dec 24, 2015

Daigo Umehara may be famous for playing video game Street Fighter as Evil Ryu, but he just did a very good deed.

Japan, USA
(Capcom • Daigo Umehara • donation • education • moving • pro gamers • scholarship • Street Fighter • video games)

Japanese adult site will donate to AIDS charity—if you can resist looking at their breasts

Master Blaster
Nov 26, 2015

Japanese adult satellite network ERO24TV is currently donating money to an AIDS awareness charity based on how long you can keep your eyes closed in front of your monitor—they’re not going to make it easy though!

Internet, Japan
(AIDS • charity • donation • eyes • women)

93-year-old Japanese woman gifts ambulance worth 2.7 million yen to local fire station

Meg Murphy
Mar 29, 2015

When you’re ill or your life is in danger, it’s natural to feel gratitude towards those who aided your recovery or saved your life. But what do you do to show your gratitude?

One elderly woman from Nara Prefecture, Japan, felt so grateful to the ambulances who often help her, that she decided to donate a brand new ambulance to her local fire station. And it wasn’t just any ambulance – this was a top-of-the-line model worth 2.7 million yen (over US$22,000)!

Japan
(ambulance • awesome old woman • donation • generosity)

Unknown person leaves thousands in cash and gift certificates in dozens of mailboxes in Japan

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Mar 26, 2014

What if you found an unmarked envelope full of money in your mailbox? Would you keep it?

On March 20 and 21, exactly 30 households were faced with this very dilemma as an unknown person deposited a total of 760,000 yen (US$7,420) in the mailboxes of an apartment complex in Ikoma City, Nara Prefecture. The largest sum found in a single mailbox was 137,000 yen (US$1,339). Just 10 days earlier, mysterious envelopes were deposited at an additional 30 homes in Kawasaki City, 486 km (300 mi) away. This time, the envelopes contained gift certificates with monetary values ranging from 5,000 yen (US$48) to tens of thousands of yen (hundreds of US dollars).

If this sounds like easy money to you, you might be surprised to learn what half of the residents chose to do with the cash.

Japan
(charity • donation • mailbox • money • strange)

Used undies, rotten food, expired meds and other disaster “aid” Japan doesn’t want

Scott R Dixon
Nov 4, 2013

Although it has been more than two and a half years since the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan, much of the area is still in need of disaster aid for the recovery efforts. But before you look around your house for items to donate, take a look at what volunteer groups, local governments and aid recipients themselves would rather you keep at home. And you might be very surprised to what else Twitter users have deemed the most “unnecessary things at a disaster zone.”

Japan
(2011 Tohoku Earthquake • aid • disaster relief • donation • volunteer)

The Masked Philanthropist is Back! Japanese Orphanage Receives Mystery Donation from Tiger Mask

Steven
Dec 16, 2012

On Christma Day, 2010, an anonymous donor left ten 30,000 yen ($360) randoseru backpacks outside a Japanese orphanage in Gunma Prefecture. Attached to the bags was a card signed by Naoto Date, the secret identity of fictional Japanese wrestler Tiger Mask, who, in the popular 1960s manga by the same name, fought for orphans after being raised in an orphanage himself.

The story was picked up by the press and a week later, on January 1, 2011, a similar donation of backpacks was left at an orphanage in Kangawa Prefecture, again with a note signed by Naoto Date. By January 11, over 100 “Tiger Mask” donations, ranging from backpacks to toys, food, and monetary gifts, had been reported at various children’s facilities across the country.

After that, little was heard from Tiger Mask, aside a second donation to the original orphanage in Gunma on Christmas Day, 2011, which failed to inspire a wave of charity as it had the previous year.

Has Tiger Mask forgotten about the children of Japan?

Japan
(charity • donation • Tiger Mask)

Evil Villain “Colonel Muska” Leaves Japanese Orphanage Stacks of Goodies

Philip Kendall
Nov 28, 2012

Here’s a news story that managed to warm even our cynical, Internet-jaded hearts to the core.

A man going by the name of Colonel Muska, the nefarious villain from Studio Ghibli’s Castle in the Sky, has made a surprise donation to an orphanage in Tokushima city on the island of Shikoku, Japan.

The mysterious stranger left a pile of expensive leather school backpacks as well as a copy of the Ghibli feature film on DVD outside the orphanage, along with a letter simply saying “Please think of this as an early Christmas present. Yours, Colonel Muska”

Japan
(anime • charity • donation • Ghibli • heartwarming)

Softbank CEO Donates US$500,000 to Hurricane Sandy Relief, Becomes Embroiled in Twitter War with Some Guy

Master Blaster
Nov 7, 2012

Who doesn’t love a Twitter war? This wonderful modern age we live in lets celebrities make snide comments to and about each other as we all read along. And with the unprecedented interactivity social networks you too could be arguing with Ashton Kutcher about something!

Last week mobile phone mogul Masayoshi Son, who has a history of large donations, offered US$500,000 through Softbank to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy in North America and then tweeted about it. This act of philanthropy irked a twitter user by the name of o44o. Feeling that this was an act of blatant advertising through the use of a good deed he decided to voice his opinion to Mr. Son.