Quoted from soldave, posted Tuesday, March 15th, 2011, 2:55:28pm at here
Am not one to usually post these things up, but feel I've got to here. The death toll is rising here as relief efforts start to get underway, and all the while the nuclear problems continue. Food in shops in areas north of Tokyo are running low, with people being asked to eat a little more conservatively to stretch their supplies a little more. And the Nikkei has lost 17% of it's worth in the past 48 hours. Make no bones about it, this is going to take a long long time for the country to bounce back from. And strong aftershocks are still going on now.
If anyone has a few spare pennies or whatever then please donate a little to the Japanese Red Cross through the Google Crisis Response page here:
I would suggest the Japanese Red Cross page themselves but they're being hammered at the moment.
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