Living & Working in Ishikawa, Japan
Many thanks to our crack team of JETs who have been working tirelessly to get this information out: Julia Caffrey, ALT; Sophie Bocklandt, CIR; Megan Lam, AJET Charity Rep & ALT; and Bill Smith, PA. 誠にありがとうございます!
Below is a list of locations accepting donations of goods; includes restrictions and maps.
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Thanks to Megan Lam and Julia C. for the information!
From the Komatsu City Website:
Between March 17-22 from 9:00-17:00, you can donate goods (see list below) at
Donations are LIMITED TO the following items (must be new and unopened):
These items will be delivered by the Red Cross.
From Meiry Komesu, CIR:
If you cannot go to the places above, bring these goods (ONLY BRAND NEW ones) to KIA (Kodera-machi Otsu 80, 1/ 5 min from Komatsu station).
AOS BRASILEIROS: pdf
Inquiries:
市民福祉部 ふれあい福祉課
Komatsu Welfare Division, Welfare Office
Tel. 0761-24-8052
Fax 0761-23-0294
Courtesy of National AJET:
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan have been described by Prime Minister Kan as the worst crisis Japan has faced since the Second World War. For those lucky enough to live in unaffected areas, people are settling back into their normal routines. However, many have not been so lucky.
Japan has been good to all of us. It has given us a home, many new friends and more opportunities than we can possibly count. And the country needs …our help now, so please ‘MAN UP FOR JAPAN.’
Payday is coming up on Friday for many of us — and when it does, if you can afford it, we ask that the first thing you do with your pay check is to donate ‘a man’ (一万円, 10,000 yen) to the Japanese Red Cross Society, the AJET Relief Fund, or any other organization of your choice. (We’ve included a handy list of organizations and easy ways to donate below).
10,000 yen may seem like a lot of money, but if you donate it as soon as pay day comes it’s easy to budget. If everyone donates on Friday, it has the potential to help the relief effort in a very big way. Giving 一万円 really isn’t much after everything that Japan has given us.
Information about the AJET Relief Fund and how to donate directly to JET participant needs.
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One of the ways you can help the people by affected by the earthquake and tsunami is by donating blood. It’s free easy and you get a snack at the end of it. People who live near Kanazawa can donate blood at Labro (ラブロ) in Ishikawa Prefecture Red Cross Blood Center or 石川県赤十字血液センター (Ishikawa-ken sekijūji ketsueki sentā). Labro is open Sunday through Friday from 10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. and 1:20–6:00 p.m. It is closed on Saturdays.
For those who don’t live near Kanazawa, Labro has a mobile donation center that travels around the prefecture. Here are the dates and locations of the mobile center for the rest of March.
Edit: Blood donation guidelines and restrictions here.
Red Cross Japan is 日本赤十字社 (nihon sekijuujisha).
This information comes to us from Megan Lam, our charity representative:
In case you are in Japan and you want to donate but don’t know how, Family Mart convenience stores will have a machine near the door where you can choose to donate to a charity of choice.
1) Look for 寄金 (kikin) or 寄付 (kifu) and press that button.
2) It will go to a page with various charities. Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, etc. Choose one (I’m not sure if there’s an option to do multiple donations, so you may have to do the process again if you want to do more than one)
3) Choose the amount you want to donate (500yen, 1000yen, etc).
4) A receipt will come out at the bottom.
5) Take the receipt to the cash register and pay them there.
From Leah Zoller, editor:
If you prefer to donate via your bank account, you can make a transfer to Red Cross Japan there. Hokkoku Ginkou does not have English support for transfers, but here’s how to do it. (There is a great general pictorial guide on Surviving in Japan if you are unused to the process.) If you know how to do a transfer, just scroll down for the bank information.
1. Click 振り込み (furikomi, transfer.)
2. If you using cash (as in sticking money into the machine, not from your account), click 現金 (genkin); if you want to transfer from your account/cash card, click キャッシュカード (kyasshu kaado). You will be asked if this is a transfer account you have registered; if you have not registered Red Cross, you will need to do so. Click the button with 新振込先 (new transfer recipient) or the one with 初めて next to it (first time transfer).
3. Put in your PIN.
4. お振込先 (ofurikomi-saki, recipient). Enter the name of the bank, the branch, and the account type.
This is not Hokkoku Bank, so select その他 (sono hoka, other) and then 銀行 (ginkou, bank). You will need to search by kana for the name of the bank first (ミ for Mizuho, for example). If you don’t see the bank you want, click その他 again. Mizuho was on the second page for me.
After you find the correct bank, search for the branch (支店名, shitenmei) by kana, then select the type of account (usually 普通, hutsuu, regular) and type in the account number (口座番号, kouza bangou)
This information is here, but the site is down. LUCKILY, I copied the information earlier! All of these accounts are for the Red Cross.
Japan Post
口座番号 (Account number)：00110-2-5606
口座名義 (Recipient)：日本赤十字社 (nihon sekijuujisha)Mizuho: みずほ銀行：新橋中央支店 （普）1032121 (Mizuho Ginkou; Shinbashi Chuuou Branch, regular account)
Mitsubishi: 三菱東京UFJ銀行：東京公務部 （普）0000302 (Mitsubishi Tokyo UFJ Ginkou, Toukyou koumubu, regular account)
Mitsui: 三井住友銀行：銀座支店 （普）7176649 (Mitsui Sumitomo Ginkou; Ginza branch; regular account)
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Rakuten: 天銀行：マーチ支店 （普）7009729 (Rakuten Ginkou Maachi branch, regular account–this is an online bank)As you enter more information and the ATM has time to think, the recipient’s name should pop up in katakana. The Japanese Red Cross is ニホンセキジュウジシャ (nihon sekijuujisha). Be sure this is correct!!
5. Enter your phone number (denwa bangou, 電話番号). You may be asked to confirm your name, too (振込人名, furikomijinmei).
6. Press 振込金額 (furikomi kingaku, transfer amount), and enter the amount you want to donate–this looks like your withdrawal screen.
7. If all the info is correct, hit the confirm (kakunin, 確認) button. You will receive a receipt for this.
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