Onegai
If you can't help Japan, please at least remember us. If you don't want to help Japan, fine. But please don't say Japan doesn't need help. 170,000 people are still in emergency shelters. There is a nuclear reactor that needs deactivating.
"But what about stuff happening at home?" You are absolutely right. Tell you what, you do your part for an issue happening in your home country while taking a moment to think about what is happening in mine, and we'll say you're good.
Ichiro would need help walking if he had a broken leg. Please don't say Japan doesn't need help, because it's just not true.
"Songs for Japan", the compilation charity album on iTunes, sells for $9 in the USA and 1,500 yen in Japan. I guess I am supposed to feel lucky for the chance to contribute that much more to a worthy cause, but I wonder how the large difference in cost came about...
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Who on earth is saying Japan doesn't need help? Grrr...
One of my local supermarkets was donating 1% of their income for one week. I shopped there yesterday. I'll probably go today today (it's the last day for donating).
It seems so little; but every little bit helps.
I tend to think about the scale of disaster as if L.A. had an earthquake and everything from there to San Francisco was wiped out by a tsunami. Puts it in perspective.
Anne, no one important. Or, if they are important, they shouldn't be!
Tia, that's the best analogy I have heard so far.
...and I live in Seattle. Not affected by much of anything.
Tak asked if you needed anything we could send you? Lots of stuff still in the markets down here. Let me know. I'll buy it, you pay C.O.D.
Tia, we are good for now, but I will keep that in mind. Thanks so much for thinking of us.
I feel like sending you a box of veggies the next time Tak gets a bunch of freebies. Daikon? Negi? Lettuce? Well, maybe not the lettuce as it wouldn't travel well, but a box of something one of these days!
Thank you, but we're actually doing better than usual in terms of vegetables and fruit, getting the good stuff made here that's actually safe but the buyers in Tokyo won't take.
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