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Campus Crusade for Christ make Manga

Campus Crusade for Christ, a Christian organization in Japan, is making a manga on suicide prevention.  The manga will be titled Risk Ride.  It is a story of two friends going on a motorcycle trip and one of the friends is trying to talk the other friend out of committing suicide and see the good in life.  This book is going to be distributed in Japan that was effected heavily by the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, before the events anniversary.  March 11, is the first year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami.  The organization wants this manga to help prevent any suicides that might occur with this anniversary.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-03-18/christian-group-makes-manga-to-curb-post-quake-suicides

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The Next Step Forward

It has nearly been a year since the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck the Tohoku coastal region of Japan.  Stu Levy, the founder of TokyoPop, has been living in Japan to help with relief and filming a documentary of the disaster and recovery efforts.  On March 14 at 7:00 p.m. AMC theaters will be screening his finished documentary, Pray For Japan.  Tickets are available at Fandango website, linked below.  All proceeds of the screening will be going to the rebuilding efforts taking place in Tohoku.  Thanks to YouTube and “PrayforJapanFilm” for the trailer below.

http://www.fandango.com/prayforjapan_152463/movietimes

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Planned Charity events for Quake/Tsunami Victims

Several individuals and publishers are doing charity events to support the earthquake and Tsunami victims of Japan.  Here are but a few: Margaret Magazine’s manga creators are planning a charity book; Yoshiki, leader of the rock band X Japan, will be auctioning off his custom-made Kawai plexiglas piano with the funds donated to relief efforts; and Akira Toriyama has developed a Youtube message and proceeds raise by playing the video will be donated to relief efforts.  Follow the links to get the articles from Anime News Network and watch the video.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-03-18/margaret-mag-manga-creators-plan-quake-charity-book

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-03-16/japanese-rocker-yoshiki-auctions-piano-for-charity

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-03-17/daily-video/dragon-ball-toriyama-raises-quake-funds-via-youtube

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Two Songs issued for Earthquake & Tsunami Victims

The following songs are from Anime News Networks’s site that were issued by Sphere and Yoko Kanno and posted on YubTube,  for the Earthquake and Tsunami victims.  Follow the links below to the actual article as well as audio to listen to the songs or listen to them below.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-03-14/sphere-milky-holmes-support-quake-victims-in-words-song

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-03-13/yoko-kanno-posts-song-to-support-quake-victims

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Earthquake & Tsunami in Japan

I just wanted to let our brothers and sisters in Japan know that we are thinking about them with the recent earthquake and Tsunami.  We hope all of your loved ones are safe and well.  I also want to extend this to all other countries that this is effecting.