Mr. Nobuhiro Umehara, C.E.O. of BBA Academy, baseball equipment producer in Nara prefecture, West Japan, has began "G-LOVE Project". In Japan, baseball is very popular sport especially for children same as football in Europe. Most of them dreams to become professional baseball player. But in this Tsunami disaster, a lot of children also have lost their gloves and bats, etc. Mr.Umehara got a mail from a teacher of disaster area. "Many children in our area have lost family, house, school....everything. However we don't want them to loose their dreams.....". "Dreams"....of course it means to play baseball towards better player.
Mr.Umehara was moved his heart by this mail, and started the project to gather used baseball gloves, and to ask volunteer high-school boys to repair and maintenance those gloves. A lot of gloves and high-school baseball player gathered in West Japan. Finally, Mr.Umehara brought over 100 gloves with message from volunteer high-school boys, directly from Nara to Tohoku district as 800km by his own car.
(photo from MSN Sankei News)
I was so impressed with this story. Of course as our simply thinking, maybe it's so easy for Mr.Umehara to donate new gloves from his company. But the important meaning is to ask donating used gloves, and to ask to maintenance them to boys having same "dreams". It's obviously the linking of heart-warming dreams between boys in disaster district and in West Japan.
I cross my fingers such linking of heart-warming will make many "dreams" in the future...
Ms.Miki Endo, just only 25 years old, was local government officer of Minami-Sanriku-cho, Miyagi prefecture. Just after the earthquake, she knew the extremely big Tsunami will come soon. Therefore she had been announcing official advice to evacuate from the city hall building. The entirely changed building is you can see right side of the photo.
(photo from The Mainichi Shinbun)
According to TV interview with some of citizen, she had been shouting "Please escape!, escape to higher area..." again and again. And suddenly the announcement had stopped, they say.
She was announcing from 3rd floor of the building. Probably, she was watching the unbelievable terrible Tsunami coming to her town and of course to herself. But she was keeping to announce for the sake of helping citizen. I was shocked and deeply impressed with her self-sacrificeed dedication as a local government officer. No, no...not only as her work.... even I don't know her personality at all, I think the dedication was depended on her sense of justice and mercifully heart.
25 years old... is the same as my elder daughter. I am impressed that so young girl did, and would like to deeply pray for her.
First of all, we all Japanese are deeply grateful for much sympathies, compensations, and lots of relief supplies.... from abroad at once.
This time, even in earthquake country Japan, it is the damage of an earthquake and the tsunami of the scale beyond the assumption. Therefore it has been happened various confusion in all over Japan as well as a disaster area. However I think it's so important that calm, and a thoughtful actions are expected because of such unbelievable disaster. But the reality is in a very heart pained situation.
At the disaster areas especially in Miyagi-pref., Iwate-pref., Fukushima-pref., nearly 1 million survivors try hard to live with the hope, even they had lost families, friends, houses...everything. At the present moment, they need food, water,fuel for heating and transportation.
But according to TV news, it happened "Buying Up" especially in Tokyo area. Of course Tokyo was also attacked by the earthquake. However it was not so big level with scarcely damages. But from various wrong rumours and anxiety, many people buy up food and fuel since the earthquake day. So most of grocery sores and gas station, food and gas has gone in Tokyo. As far as we heard, at least Tokyo is no problem in the present moment, even they have to endure "planned informed blackout" periodically and confusion of transportation system.
But at the disaster area, at once they need food and heating, medicine for living today. Minutes and minutes, injured and old people has been gone, I heard.
And regarding the stock market and the foreign exchange market, historical rate recorded today. Probably, some investors around the world are targeting own profit.
Furthermore concerning "various wrong rumours", For media people, please broadcast true information. And for ordinary people, please estimate what is truth. Especially concerned "Nuclear Power Plant Accident", some TV announcers gives anxious too much, or mistaken information like unit of radiation..."mili" or "micro" Sievert and "per hour" or "totally". Even from abroad, I have been got many mails and some of those told "TV called it Chernobyl 2...." etc. Of course even now, the radiation situation is unpredictable. But the structure of the plant is very different from Chernobyl case, all the professionals told. And also quantity of radiation is still within safe level. (I had taken much quantity by a times CT scan, when I was in bypass operation of myocardial infarction)
The sufferers in Japan will definitely revive someday like Hanshin Earthquake case, I believe. Therefore until then, please give them your heartwarming....... thank you.
