[Ask your help for survivors of earthquake and tsunami]

[Ask your help for survivors of earthquake and tsunami]

To foreigners living in Asaka, Saitama of Japan, the Asaka City Office has accepted your donation.  If you want to donate goods to the affected population of earthquake and tsunami in North-East Japan (Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki), please make reference to the following information.

Details are as follows.

1. Donations (limited to those unused and specified below)

a. Foods (excluding raw foods and those with short shelf life)
b. Water (in a sealed plastic bottle, 500 ml, 1 litter, 2 litter)
c. Blanket
d. Disposable diaper for a little child and/or an aged

2. Reception (no mail accepted)

i. Emergency Centre ('Ken-Chuoh-Bosai-Kichi' 県中央防災基地)111-1 Kami-mujina, Kawashima-cho, Hiki-gun, Saitama
tel. 049-297-7416 (only Japanese)
 (Map: http://map.yahoo.co.jp/pl?lat=35.57.46&lon=139.29.29)

ii. Management Office of Kumagaya Sports & Culture Park
   ('Kumagaya Sports Bunka Kohen Kanri-jimusho 熊谷スポーツ文化公園管理事務所)c/o Kumagaya-Dome, 300 Kawakami, Kumagaya-shi, Saitama
tel. 048-526-2004 (only Japanese)
(Map: http://www.parks.or.jp/kumagaya/access/index.html)

3. Reception Time (as of 18th March, 2011 - open weekends and holidays)

Open (9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.)
Source of this information: http://www.city.asaka.saitama.jp/cgi-bin/news/article.cgi?id=6392
If you need more information or help, please feel free to contact me.

by R. Enomori