Mar. 18th, 2011
Fri-18-Mar-2011
Mar. 18th, 2011 09:11 am
Today's Tokyo forecast:
10℃/ 0℃/ 0% victim areas have mid-winter weather 
Thank you always for your nice comments!! I always appreciate a lot. yesterday as regular Thursday shows aired, we could laughed after long time. we still have aftershock. I know many worry about radiation. but Tokyo is same. we have only minute amount. Nothing worry about it. I know overseas media report dramatically. and US government demand evacuate from 80KM from nuclear plant. But radiation level is stable. hope this continue, and cool down.
A week after since that day. yesterday as in Tokyo area also cold many use heater we had risk to have unpredictable big blackout. but we could avoid black out. I feel how amazing we are we corporate to avoid blackout. Still inconvenient life continue in Tokyo. but we are living, let’s smile.
Sho-kun at Zero, what victims need is monetary donation. your donation appreciated a lot. m(_ _)m
all soul rest in peace.
Arashi fans cheering tweet hash tag #arsmile
DISASTER NEWS
□U-stream: NHK in JP, NHK in ENG, TBS □NHK RADIO am 963: in English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, German and French □ information of Earthquake in multi language

rotation blackout : your sector:Map Tokyo Saitama Kanagawa Chiba Ibaragi Gunma [sector 1]: 6:20-09:20 &13:50-17:30 [sector 2]: 9:20-12:20 & 16:50-20:30 [sector 3]:12:20-16:00, [sector 4]:15:20-19:00, [sector 5]: 18:20-22:00.
Operation Yashima (save electric power) illustration in Arashi style by @nanatsu75 san
save using cell phone for victim areas
save shopping we have enough food for whole Japan.
save water
UPDATE check also my updated
@yamakaze0672
Ohoku twitter at 20:46 I’m sorry to the people who had damage by earthquake. Considering production at factor and delivery situation influenced by earthquake. DVD and Blue-Ray of Ohoku sales day to 15 April. sorry to the people who expect 8 April. detail at official site.
Music Station on air 1 April Arashi appears.
History of our family on air 3/24-26 and 3/25 Pekepon x History of our family.
Tomorrow Arashi ni Shiyagare according NTV program chart, Tonight, Arashi wish to deliver to you at full power… what we can do now… song and message…and message from Kaibutsu-kun… Ryuta Taro teacher give passionate lesson to Arashi “this is adolescence!” Ryuta teacher and Arashi scream adolescence on the flied. at encounter of male cooking… Ryuta Sato appoints Sakurai who is bad at cooking! shaking pan battle at hot fry cooking battle. Unexpected miracle to Sakurai… Close Encounters of the Third Kind] Genius magician Tomohiro Maeda gives instruction touching magic to leader Ohno, perform to members of Arahi.
Verbal-san (musician) yesterday blog I have been to shooting of Himitsu no Arahi-chan. all of Arashi I met after long time, and guests are all seemed fine. Before shooting my mind was full of other matters but, I got a lot power because of shooting. right this is the one! got power each other through work! Thank you all of Arashi! … and Sakurai-kun. You know “ims”! (please watch airing about this.)
Gantz twitter As we already informed at official site. Due to traffic and after shock we can’t plan. we suspend Gantz track run. and Exhibition in Sendai that plant to be held on 19 is cancelled. hope you understand these situations and please be forewarned. (Mac of PR) at 17:18 It’s Sato producer. I have just met Natsuna-chan after long time. She came to NTV to shoot this season end special TV show. She made appearance not related with Gantz. but by contraries I was pleased. as all got courage her cheering and do-it-all-the-way attitude. Please expect her further great success
Nando-san Bartender director, drama bartender ep.6 plan to on air delayed a week
Nikkan Sports <Electric supply vehicle of Yama P concert arrive to Iwate.> 1 on 300KW Electric supply vehicle of Johnny’s agency and 1 track that loaded 2000ℓ light oil Arrived Iwate commercial cultural center in Takizawa village, Iwate pref. These were engaged for Tomohisa Yamashita’s concert.
[MOD] IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT + POLL
Mar. 18th, 2011 11:56 amTo put it simply, we're going to be speeding up the voting process regarding where we are donating to, as well as making changes to our original plans as per PayPal's request. I actually received a phone call from them yesterday, and we had a long talk regarding this fundraiser and what I would have to do to legitimize what we're doing. The good news is, we absolutely can still continue this fundraiser and the donations can keep coming in. The bad news is, PayPal has flagged the account for the time being and will be placing restrictions on it in six days (such as removing the ability to make bank transfers) unless I provide documentation to prove we are legally authorized to raise funds on behalf of the charity we choose.
Please do not make suggestions about quickly sending off the money before the six day period is over. I do not want Paypal to interpret that hasty move wrongly and think that we are in any way involved in illegal activity such as money laundering, and their request for official documentation is actually very reasonable and understandable. However, since one of Paypal's requirements is that I would need a subordination letter(s) from registered 501c(3) charity/charities of our choice, this severely limits us in terms of both time and choices, as we must now race to pick which charity to donate to before that waived transaction fee period runs out, as well as contact each charity for a subordination letter from them, for which I'm not sure how long the process will take.
Because of this new time constraint, I have made the conscious decision to reduce the original intention of polling the community on whether to donate in one large sum vs. distribute to multiple charities. We will now be picking only one organization to donate to.
It would take much too long to gather all the proper documentation needed, not to mention the process itself may also be time consuming (eg. if they want to take the time to review everything we've done first, if they require additional documents before granting a letter, etc.). The fundraiser itself is also extremely draining and time consuming on our part as the organizers, who have school and work to attend to in addition to this. There is very little free time left that we can spare on this fundraiser, so I sincerely hope you will understand why we are only choosing one charity now.
Here is a short but excellent summary of the three best NPOs written up by
Currently there are many charities out there soliciting funds for the relief effort in Japan, and I have checked out many legitimate NPOs and their press statements regarding their fundraising efforts. Since Japan hasn't officially solicited for financial aide, nor has it accept many of the offers by countries due to various reasons (such as not further burdening the affected area with more influx of people and volunteers.) We have come to the conclusion that instead of pledging to charities that are promising to work for the relief effort, we are going to pledge to charities that are actually in Japan working towards the relief effort. Due to the new restrictions set out by Paypal, we can no longer consider the possibility of donating to any non-profit organizations that are not registered under the 501c(3) label in the US/Canada. This stipulation makes it almost impossible for us to donate to any local Japanese charities since they do not fall under this label.
Below is a section dedicated to three charities we have found that are currently working in Japan with the relief effort and the possible pros and cons of each charitable organization. To compile this list of pros and cons, I visited various websites and read testimonials, along with articles concerning the charities. For each statement I made concerning these charities, I have prepared a link to credible websites that support those claims. I tried to be as unbias as possible in compiling the list, but if you feel that I was being overly harsh, or lenient, towards a particular charity, you're more than free to comment and point out these flaws.
( Direct Relief International )
( Doctors Without Borders )
( The American Red Cross )
IMPORTANT:
Regardless of the vote, I have decided that we will be donating at least $5000 to DRI, the reasoning being that I have had to start the process of requesting subordination letters due to Paypal's requirements. I chose DRI over the other two because the American Red Cross might be too big of an organization and we were afraid they weren't going to respond in a timely manner, and Doctors Without Borders has yet to actually set up a fund specifically for Japan. Ideally, I would prefer to donate to DRI as they have statistically shown that out of all three organizations they have spent almost 100% of the donations they receive towards actual aid. I have also already received word from DRI following my inquiry email yesterday afternoon, and they stated firmly that 100% of all funds donated towards emergency aid for Japan will go directly to the cause.
And now, the all-important part of this post:
[Poll #1719340] The poll will be ending in 48 hours from now, on March 20th at 12:00 PM EST (please check here to convert to your own timezone).
Again, this is due to the new time constraints placed on us to obtain official documentation to prove to Paypal that we are authorized to raise funds for a registered charity organization. As I said before, you are still welcome to keep posting up offer threads, selling/buying, and donating while all this is going on, because it won't have an effect on the fundraiser itself. I really do wish we could consider more choices, and give you guys more time and more freedom to pick what you want as it is you the community who have devoted so much of your time, efforts and money to this fundraiser for Japan. I'm sincerely sorry we have to make all these changes, but I hope you will understand that it is necessary as well.
Thank you very much for reading and voting. ♥
(on a lighter note, we're at $17,822.24 USD in terms of money raised for the fundraiser!)
I hope reading it will cheer you up too! He talks about his family's pets, stories about his Jr. days going home with Nino on the same train, how his brother is allegedly a Sho fan, and a potential new haircut! Along with what Arashi does when they receive a new song for a single.
( Arashi Aiba Masaki's Recomen Arashi Remix 03/18/11 )