Japan earthquake / tsunami: How to donate
- American Red Cross
- Global Giving
- Google Checkout
Allows you to donate directly to Japan RC, Unicef or Save the Children using Google Checkout - Japanese Red Cross
Note: only accepting donations through direct deposit to specified Japanese bank accounts - Salvation Army
- Save the Children
- Tsutaya TPoint (in Japanese)
- Yahoo Japan (in Japanese)
Radiation levels in Japan
- Ibaraki Prefecture (area between troubled reactors and Tokyo)
- Yokohama hourly radiation report
Unit: nanoGrey/hr (nGy/h) - Tokyo
Tokyo resident is live streaming geiger counter readings from his home in Ota-ku. Units: CPM (130 is alert level in US)
Reference
- What is a Sievert?
An international measurement unit. It relates the absorbed dose in human tissue to the effective biological damage of radiation - What is a Gray?
An international measurement unit used to measure an absorbed dose. Does not describe biological effects. - About radiation poisoning / sickness
Wikipedia article summarizing symptoms, prevention, treatment and critical exposure levels - Japan Meteorological Agency Seismic Intensity Scale
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Emergency Information & Message Systems
- Tokyo Electric Power & Gas (TEPCO) information on rolling blackouts
- KDDI / au
Message service - Softbank
Message system - NTT DoCoMo
Message system - NTT East
Voice messaging system - U.S. Embassy: citizen registery and finder
- Tsunami warning information
- Missing Person Finder (Google)
Quake/Tsunami Data & Stats
Live streaming news from Japan
- NHK
- NHK World (English)
- TBS TV
- Geocities, multi-channel streaming
Page combines online streams from several Japanese TV channels - InterFM Radio
Tokyo's multi-lingual radio station. Offering news and information between songs.
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