Aid to Victimsof theGreat East Japan
Earthquake
FY2015 Report

Tomioka, Fukushima ©JPF

Introduction
We at JAPAN PLATFORM (JPF) are sincerely grateful for your continuing support.
Thanks to your help, we have been able to connect donations received from over 3,700 companies and organizations and44,000 individuals with 185 NGOs and NPOs, and have carried out 391 aid projects.1 Companies and organizations have not
only given monetary donations, but have also provided swift and varied aid through their businesses and services. Through the
Living Together Fund, established to support local NGOs and NPOs as agents of reconstruction, we have helped to support
disaster victims by providing approximately 1.4 billion yen to 334 projects.2
As we enter the sixth year after the disaster, JPF has set forth a new plan for aid, in accordance with the major changes in
the aid situation and in the problems faced by disaster-aﬀected areas. Approximately 148,000 people continue to live as
evacuees. More than half of these (89,000)3 are evacuees from Fukushima Prefecture. Our goal for Fukushima, which faces
diﬃcult problems under complex conditions, is to continue aid at least through ﬁscal year 2018. In Iwate and Miyagi
Prefectures, aid project applications to the Living Together Fund will no longer be accepted after the ﬁrst half of ﬁscal year
2016, but we will continue to entrust work to the local intermediary aid NPOs to monitor each aid project and to accessoverall progress.
Five years ago on March 11, JPF moved swiftly to begin aid for victims of the disaster. Three hours after the earthquake
occurred, JPF decided to mobilize, opening its Tohoku oﬃce in Sendai, and sending regional coordinators to the threeprefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima. Since then, together with local NPOs, JPF has listened to the voices of disastervictims, and has worked to deliver support that stays close to these victims.
All of the staﬀ at JPF oﬀer our heartfelt thanks for the warm support that you have been giving us. JPF will keep oﬀering
meticulous support especially to people who ﬁnd themselves in a weak position. We ask for your continued understanding
and support as we move forward.

Table of contents
Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………01
What is JAPAN PLATFORM?

The Current State of Aid to East Japan Disaster Victims ……………………03
About the Living Together Fund …………………………………………………04
Project Reports 01： Community Aid ……………………………………………05
02： Safety-Net Aid ………………………………………………07

ARIMA Toshio

03： Occupational Aid …………………………………………09

Chairperson
JAPAN PLATFORM

04： Coordination Aid ……………………………………………11
Current Conditions and Future Challenges in Fukushima …………………13
Cooperation and Coordination Among Aid Workers…………………………15
JPF s Direction in Future Domestic Projects……………………………………16
Messages from the Supporting Companies and Organizations ……………17
Cooperation with Companies ………………………………………………………19
List of Supporting Companies and Organizations ……………………………20List of Aid Recipient Organizations from the Living Together Fund ……21
Financial Statement ……………………………………………………………………22

1 The total number of projects being carried out between March 11, 2011 and March 31, 2016
2 The total number of projects being carried out between May 19, 2011 and March 31, 2016
3 According to the July 29, 2016 report from the Reconstruction Agency

August 2016………………………………………………………01

Appeal for Donations …………………………………………………………………22

A view of the construction of public disaster housing in Shin-Hebita, Ishinomaki, Miyagi ©JPF

What is JAPAN PLATFORM (JPF)?

Since our inauguration in the year

JPF is an organization working together with civil society to provide humanitarian aid from Japan, cooperating basedon equal partnerships with its 47 allied NGOs※, the business community and government.

Donations

Donations through employees
fundraising, matching gifts, etc.

The
Flow
of
aid

Relief Items

Business
Community

Victims

Japan Business
Federation, etc.

Medical Treatment

Relief Items

NGOs

Response Program for the Humanitarian Crisis in Syria and Iraq
Emergency Response to the Nepal Earthquake 2015

approximately 1,200 projects in 47

Emergency Humanitarian Assistance Program in Gaza 2014

countries and regions.

Reintegration Assistance Program for Refugees/IDPs of Myanmar

Emergency Response to the South Sudan Conflict 2014
Emergency Response to Extreme Winter Conditions (Dzud) in Mongolia 2016of Natural

Refugees

Transportation, communication,
traveling bank accounts, etc.

Livelihood Recovery

Conflicts

Government
Ministry ofForeign
Affairs, ofJapan etc.

of Armed

Psycho-social Support

Response Program for the Humanitarian
Crisis in Syria and Iraq ©JPF

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Response Program for the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen

Water & Sanitation

Services

Corporate and academic expertisein knowledge and know-how

four billion yen in humanitarian aid to

Humanitarian Assistance in Afghanistan 2016

Disasters

Blankets, food,hygiene products, etc.

Human Resources※As of July, 2016

2000, we have delivered a total of

Current Programs (as of July, 2016)

Emergency Response to the Nepal
Earthquake 2015 ©JPF

Emergency Humanitarian Assistance
Program in Gaza 2014 ©JPF

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The Current State of Aid to East Japan
Disaster Victims, Now in Its Sixth YearAid to Victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake

About the Living Together Fund〜 Putting an end to earthquake-related deaths: the current conditions and challenges 〜
AKUTSU Yukihiko

JPF Domestic Division Manager and Head of JPF s Tohoku Office

As we mark the passage of five years of aid activities since the Great East Japan Earthquake, the conditions andchallenges, as well as our aid situation, are now changing significantly: victims are moving from temporary housing to
public disaster housing, being exhausted by repeated moving, facing difficulties which arise with sustaining an aging
community. Urgent aid required to support these victims are: rebuilding communities; expanding the safety-net throughpsychological care; and providing transportation service for the disaster-weakened and socially disadvantaged people,
such as the elderly, handicapped, single-parent households, and the needy.

The
Situation in
Iwate
Prefecture

The
Situation in
MiyagiPrefecture

The construction of public disaster housing is in progress, and the moving from
temporary housing to public disaster housing has begun. The challenge after moving
to new housing is the formation of communities and residents associations. We
support activities that encourage residents to express their agency andindependence in forming new communities. At the same time, we provide moreindividualized aid for those experiencing difficulty leaving temporary housing. The
challenge we face in this process is a lack of co-working community leaders due todeclining population in the disaster-affected areas.
After five years, progress has been made in constructing embankments and incollective relocation projects, and in some areas relocations have been completed
and new neighborhoods have already been opened. Recovery is proceeding steadily
with regard to infrastructure, however, the rate of population loss in the threeaffected prefectures of Tohoku is higher than ever before. As a consequence, during
the past three years, the number of houses for collective relocations was cut downby 30 percent from its original plan. As the five-year period for concentrated
recovery efforts designated by the Reconstruction Agency draws to an end, thedisaster-affected areas are confronting a grim situation physically andpsychologically. Aid structures must be organized to look five or ten years ahead andplace emphasis on the people who will become local leaders.

The evacuation order issued for the entire city of Naraha has now been lifted, but
at presen, only 6 percent of the residents have returned, most of them elderly. Hence,the challenge for the future will be structuring integrated community care system. In
anticipation of evacuation orders being lifted in places like the Odaka area of
Minamisoma, Namie Town, Iitate Village, and Tomioka Town, decontamination isproceeding and incineration facilities that burn radioactively contaminated materials
are operating at full capacity. However, once evacuation orders are lifted, reparations
payments having been paid to evacuees will stop. They are facing difficulties inmaking decisions whether to return home or to continue living in radiation-freeevacuation places. The issues are availability of job for living and low-dose radiation exposure especially for young
generation. In this situation, preserving original communities or rebuilding communities are growing more pressing, but it is anextremely difficult task. In light of this situation, JPF is strengthening support for Fukushima through the Living Together Fundat least until fiscal year 2018 both for Fukushima and the areas outside of Fukushima that have accepted evacuees.

The
Situation in
Fukushima
Prefecture

Wide-Ranging Support Through Aid in Four Fields
JAPAN PLATFORM (JPF) established the Living Together Fund in April 2011, and started invitation for applicationsin May. Through quarterly offerings each year, it has distributed financial assistance to organizations aiding victims of
the Great East Japan Earthquake. The fund exposes local aid needs, and is applied to a wide range of aid in four key
aid areas (community aid, safety-net aid, occupational aid, and coordination aid). The fund not only supports
independent local activities, but also carefully determines the phases of recovery, giving support that will take root
locally and connecting activities with the next steps in recovery.

1

Community Aid
P05〜

Safety-Net Aid
P07〜

This type of aid creates
community by building
connections amongresidents, helping recovery
through the provision ofplaces where members of
the community can gather
and through the process ofworking together.

This type of aid gives
disaster victims the security
to lead healthy lives by
providing aid to people ordomains of activity which
is not yet covered by thegovernment program.

3

4

Occupational Aid
P09〜

Coordination Aid
P11〜

This type of aid helps asecure life for disastervictims through activities
and information-sharing
which lead to jobs andincome for those who losttheir jobs in the disaster.

This type of aid helps to
support the coordination ofaid with government entities,
NGOs, NPOs and otherorganizations so thatsafety-net aid, community
aid, and occupational aid
can proceed efficiently.

The Process Followed by Projects Supported by the Living Together FundThe process followed by projects funded by JPF s Living Together Fund from application to screening, project
implementation, and conclusion, is described below. In order to provide targeted and efficient aid that responds tolocal needs, we carry out fair and deliberate screening and support the implementation of the projects.
Evaluation of Project Applications(about one and a half months)

Receptionof projectapplication

The number of evacuees continues to decrease year by year, but still about 148,0001 people are living as evacuees;

2

First
round

Second
round

Final
round

Evaluationof applied
documents

Evaluation
by external
evaluation
board

Evaluation
by JPF
standing
committee

Project
implementation by
the recipientorganization
Conclusionof
Agreement

Examinationof project

Project
implementation

reportand financial

Notice of
audit
resultsstatement

more than half of those (89,000)1 are still out of Fukushima in radiation-free areas and many of them have family
members who suffer from physical and/or psychological disorders. Furthermore, the number of disaster-related deaths
in Fukushima stands at 20382. The trend is upward, and is extremely serious in comparison with Iwate (459 deaths)
and Miyagi (920 deaths). JPF will continue working to put an end to disaster-related deaths at all costs throughsafety-net aid that addresses physical and psychological needs, and through community aid that works to prevent
isolation and improve residential environments.
1 Reconstruction Agency, reported 29 July 2016

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2 Reconstruction Agency, reported 30 June 2015

Evaluation criteria■Demonstrates an accurate grasp of needs■Discusses concrete activities and results■Coordinates with local government and otheraid providers■No problems are evident in the organization s
financial foundation or management

Project monitoring■Advice from JPF s
local staff■Information sharing■Aid matching04

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COMMUNIT Y AID

Rebuilding and Sustaining Local Communities
Through Festivals and Folk Entertainment
Aid recipientorganization

SAVE IWATE (General Incorporated Association in Iwate)
Onikenbai festival held in the Kanto region ©SAVE IWATE

SAVE IWATE carries out recovery aid through thethey were before the disaster, SAVE IWATE has been

local performing arts. Iwate Prefecture has been called acarrying out various programs to encourage exchange

treasure-trove of local performing arts, and there areboth locally and further aﬁeld. Among these eﬀorts ismore than 300 art organizations in the coastal area that

the Local Performing Arts Festival held in the Kanto

suﬀered great damage in the Great East Japanregion, in which many groups from Iwate applied to

Earthquake. The experience of the earthquake showed

perform. The festival drew many new fans, helping to

us how important and integral local performing arts arebuild community beyond the region, and continuing toin the lives of people in the coastal region.

be a great source of inspiration. By creating this kind of

Local performing arts bring energy that is needed foropportunities, SAVE IWATE works toward local recovery

recovery. In order to make them even more active thanthat integrates the power of the local performing arts.

M essa ge

We have been ceaselessly engaged in aid activities since the occurrence of theearthquake, and already ﬁve years have passed. During that time, we have been able to continue
our activities thanks to the funding, supplies, and volunteer support from all over the country. Onceagain, we oﬀer our heartfelt thanks. Now, ﬁnally, perhaps one third of the recovery eﬀorts in thedisaster-aﬀected areas are complete. In the months to come, people will continue to rebuild theirhomes and their jobs, revive their communities, and move toward real recovery. We plan tocontinue aid activities, tailoring them to this new phase.

Explaining about public disaster housing at an assembly hall in a temporary housing facility ©Fukko Minasan kai

Bringing Independent Local
Efforts and a New Perspective to
Community Aid

Nijiiro Kureyon (NPO in Miyagi)
Art Corner in the assembly hall in a public recovery housing ©Nijiiro Kureyon

TAKAKU Masakazu

The construction of public disaster housing is proceeding at a rapid pace in Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures, and almostof all of it is to be ﬁnished within ﬁscal year 2016. Relocation from temporary housing to permanent housing such as
public disaster housing is beginning in earnest, and there is a need to form new communities at the new residential
locations. Along with community-building among residents of public disaster housing and the formation oforganizations like neighborhood associations, there is a growing need to build local communities inclusive of those
who have been relocated and the original local residents. Providers of aid for community building must carry out theiractivities in ways that encourage residents initiative and ownership.
Meanwhile, the removal and consolidation of temporary housing continues. Special attention and care must be
provided to those who cannot leave temporary housing due to age, health or economic reasons. This situation requires
sustaining communities at temporary housings with a focus on individual support. Thus, the situations of temporary
housing and public disaster housing call for diﬀerent types of aid: we must shift gears from recovery aid to sustainable
aid towards day-to-day community comprehensive care system.
In Fukushima, in addition to the afore-mentioned community aid, provision of aid both for building communities inplaces where evacuees are currently living, and for re-building communities among returnees is needed.

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Building Community that Cares Children
Through Art in Public Recovery Housing
Aid recipientorganization

Programme Coordinator
JPF Domestic Division, Iwate

TERAI Yoshio(Chairperson)

In the past ﬁve years since the earthquake, Nijiiro Kureyon

recovery housing development where we run a salonhas worked to create a place for children where they feel

where children and adults can interact through art, making

at home in evacuation centers and temporary housing. As

projects like mosaics and chopstick rests. Responding togroup relocations continue on a large scale, the places

the requests from the participants who want to make more

where children can feel relaxed and safe have become

connections with community members, Nijiiro Kureyon

limited in this changing environment. Taking advantage ofcontinues its activities in the coming years. We will work

our previous experiences and using the Living Together

toward community-building by encouraging area residents

Fund, Nijiiro Kureyon has worked to create a relaxing place

to warmly watch over the children so that they grow up

for children in the assembly hall at the Shin-Tateno

being nurtured by the local community.

M essa ge

As I listen to what residents here are saying and look at how the children are doing,

I feel that both adults and children are not speaking out what they think and feel. In other word,
they keep stagnation in their hearts. It is possible that people may not have made much progress in
psychological recovery. The only thing that our organization can do is to continue to stay close topeople. We hope to forge connections between one person and another, little by little andpatiently, in order to nurture a community that watches over the children.

SHIBATA Shigeki(Representative)06

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SAFETY-NET AID

We Support People Living in Poverty inDisaster-Affected Areas ThroughEmergency Food Aid
Aid recipientorganization

Food Bank IWATE (NPO in Iwate)
Food Drive ©Food Bank IWATE

Five years have passed since the earthquake, andbusinesses. Donors bring in food items that have beenamong the disaster victims, there are those who havesitting on a shelf at home. As such, anyone can easily

exhausted their savings and are living in poverty, whoprovide support for people in ﬁnancial diﬃculty and forare still unable to rebuild their lives or who have not

the aid workers who help them. We want to build amade plans to do so. We have been providing food insociety where no one is neglected, where anyone cancoordination with organizations that support disasterbe a provider of aid, and where anyone is able to ask

victims, organizations that support people in poverty,

for help. We will continue our activities in the belief thatand counseling centers that help people in poverty torecovery means rebuilding peoples lives at a pace of

become self-suﬃcient. The food products we provide

one at a time.

are supported through donations from citizens andM essa ge

I was shocked to hear a recent report on child poverty that described a child whose

daily food consisted of only one meal, the school lunch. One never knows when poverty will set indue to disability, disaster, unemployment, illness, or the need for nursing care. If we are being able
to lead a normal life , it is only because we have been lucky over and over again. For the struggling
people who cannot ask for help, we will continue working to create methods and systems toidentify these people in an early stage. We oﬀer our heartfelt thanks to JPF and to our many donors

ISE Shoichi(Chairperson)for giving us the opportunity to engage in these activities.

Free welfare transportation service project for people with disabilities and the elderly requiring care ©Ai Net Takata

Responding to the Increasingly
Individualized Needs of Disaster Victims
for Their Moving from Temporary
TAKAKU Masakazu
Programme Coordinator
Housing to Public Disaster Housing JPF Domestic Division, Iwate
As the moving from temporary housing to public disaster housing begins in earnest, particular needs have identiﬁed
to help people who are having diﬃculty in moving out of temporary housing. The reasons that some people cannot
move out temporary housing vary: diﬃculty in rebuilding their lives because of poverty; not meeting the criteria forliving in public disaster housing; or diﬃculty in adjusting themselves to new environment. Whatever the case, it isnecessary to work closely with each disaster victim to come up together with a suitable plan for rebuilding her or his
life, utilizing the support of specialists such as lawyers and ﬁnancial planners. For those left behind in temporary
housing, a strategy for re-building of life must be made based on close examination of their individual situation throughtalking with them, before building adequate care plan.
As many people move out of temporary housing, those who cannot move feel being left behind. In addition, as
consolidation of temporary housing goes into full swing, there is a possibility that some people must move from one
center to another several times. Hence, the need for psychological support for them will be even greater than it is today.
After people have moved into public disaster housing, the need arises to create a system whereby the wholecommunity can watch over one another, especially over the elderly, single-parent families, and children in
impoverished households, in order to prevent isolation and dying alone.

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Working to Support Residents Health inAssembly Halls and Temporary Housing
Aid recipientorganizationri plus (NPO in Miyagi)
Contributing to making local people healthier ©ri plus

We operate in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture. The

disaster, so now we want to help, our program isearthquake has created many problems, and revealed

providing opportunities of education and hands-on

many existing ones. However, it has also made many

practice. We train residents (aides) to lead healthpeople rise up and take the initiative. One of these

improvement programs, and they go to assembly halls

initiatives is our work with mutual strength-building

and temporary housing facilities to conduct exercise

aides. In response to local residents voices such as I

classes. We train and work together with residents whowant to help local people through volunteer activities

support their area proactively, with aims to build

and we received support from many people after thecommunities and to make people healthier.

M essa ge

It has been ﬁve years since I ﬁrst visited Ishinomaki after the earthquake and moved

here permanently. I felt the strength and resolve of the community of the people in this area, andwe have tried to eﬀectively use that strength to improve people s health. As a result, we have met
residents who are willing to support their area, and have worked with them to make people
healthier and to build community. At present, we teach exercise classes in the area at about tenplaces each month. As people continue to move into recovery housing, we will continue tocontribute to the area through these activities.

HASHIMOTO Daigo(Board Spokesperson)08

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OCCUPATIONAL AID

Supporting Region Activities to Rebuild
Livelihoods and Revitalize Fishing Villages
Aid recipientorganization

Shanti Volunteer Association(Public Interest Incorporated Association in Miyagi)
KURAUCHI no MEGUMI2016 with a miracle ship ©SVA

A single ship that survived after the disaster was theas well as developing the younger generation of ﬁshermen,

impetus for the formation of a group of ﬁshermen calledspreading the word about the attractiveness of the sea s

Kurauchi no Megumi ( Megumi ), when ﬁsherman living

bounty and of working in Kesennuma. Responding to their

together in an evacuation center came together and said,

passion, a group called Yorimichi (Stopover) of women

The only occupation we can be is ﬁshermen. They met

working in the harbor was formed, and they have been

many volunteers from all over the country, and began to feelworking to create a place for people to come together, andstrongly that they should focus not only on production, butcoordinating with the local area to invigorate the ﬁshingalso on connections with people. For this reason, Megumi put

village. This year, supported by JPF, Megumi has blazed newits energy into hosting opportunities for children and people

trails with the help of the local community, constructing afrom within and outside the prefecture to experience ﬁshing,processing factory and increasing its ﬁshing partnerships.

M essa ge

Before the earthquake, the ﬁshermen were all running independent ﬁshing

operations. However, as they were about to lose hope after the great damage they suﬀered, themembers of Megumi thought, We should pioneer a new way of ﬁshing, working together with our
fellow ﬁshermen. Gradually, young people saw what they were doing and began to join them.
Many sad things happened, but despite them, the sea is the most attractive aspect of this town.
People are looking ahead, without fearing change. I think that they are getting the message about
the town s appeal. However, recovery is still far in the future.

KURAUCHI no MEGUMIChildren experiencing fishermen s work

© Shanti Volunteer Association

Giving Disaster Victims and Evacuees
Purpose of Life Through Upcycling Projects
Aid recipientorganization

Nakoso City Planning Support Centre(NPO in Fukushima)

Occupations as Village
Pride and Local Identity

An upcycling project ©Nakoso City Planning Support Centre

MIURA Ryuichi

Our group has opened salons in the neighborhoods

to create high-quality products (calling this upcycling

and towns where both tsunami victims and evacuees

conveys the meaning of going one step beyond

from the nuclear accident gather. As time passes, therecycling.) This year s goal for the project was topeople at our salon in the tsunami-damaged town ofestablish the production process and make a prototype.

Iwama are recovering, and at the same time, we have

In particular, the people at thethey also have a role in local pride; residents identity; people s love for their hometowns and neighborhood

been hearing more people express their hope tosalon spent a long time studying

communities; and environmental conservation. More than anything, the foundation of self-reliance for disaster-aﬀectedparticipate in society. In response, this year, we started

dyeing. As a result, the prototype

areas is built on people s work to make their livings. In other words, without economic self-reliance, there is noan upcycling project aimed at creating jobs. The

was ﬁnished according to plan atrecovery. Thus, occupational aid plays an important role in the primary industries in the Tohoku region. Yet, there has

upcycling project reuses airbags from dismantled cars

the end of September 2015.

Programme Coordinator
JPF Domestic Division, Miyagi

The key industries of Tohoku such as agriculture and ﬁsheries, have meaning that goes beyond mere employment:

been little progress in restoring markets. The situation continues to be bleak: approximately 40 percent of merchants
who started business at prefabricated temporary shops in Miyagi Prefecture went out of business. Occupational aid is
an area which requires a high degree of specialized knowledge and skill in comparison to other areas of aid: expertisein product development; market research and expansion: and business continuity. Passion for recovery aid must be
perfectly combined with cool and objective business skills. Sustainable recovery in disaster-aﬀected areas must comewith recovery in the areas key industries, particularly in primary industries. In ﬁscal year 2016, occupational aid will nolonger be one of the areas eligible for support from the Living Together Fund in Iwate and Miyagi. However, I believethat the best occupational aid for Tohoku is increasing people s interests in scenery, food, culture, and people ofTohoku, which lead to traveling, buying, eating, and playing in Tohoku in support of recovery.

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AZUMA Sayaka(Program Supervisor)
SVA Kesennuma Office

M essa ge

A waterproof bag made from a reused airbag

During the ﬁve years since the earthquake, our activities have changed signiﬁcantly.

As the elderly of Iwama who did the dyeing in the upcycling project have begun to develop
dementia, we had to adjust our project course. Currently, we are talking with a school for
handicapped about the opening of dyeing classes at school to recruit it young people.
Recovery in disaster-aﬀected areas does not necessarily follow the same trajectory as
re-establishment of livelihoods and psychological rehabilitation for disaster-aﬀected residents. As we
see it, closing that gap is the duty and task for us who are living in this time, and we will continue toprovide support of love while staying close to people s hearts.

TACHI Takashi(Executive Director)

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COORDINATION AID

A Cooperative Project for People with
Disabilities in Collaboration with
Welfare Workplaces
Aid recipientorganization

AAR Japan (NPO in Tokyo)
Brainstorming on sales promotion of Polvorón cookies ©AAR Japan

In an eﬀort to break through the situation of people

Living Together Fund, AAR Japan held joint seminars

with disabilities who were forced to evacuate after theinviting cooperation from a business company where they

nuclear accident in Fukushima and who have faced

worked on standardization of the production process anddiﬃculty ﬁnding work in the evacuation towns, AAR Japan

uniﬁed marketing promotion. Among other things, AAR

has supported to create a system of bringing together

Japan s support has also strengthened online marketing

welfare centers for production and sales of unitaryand sales management, improved packaging quality, andproduct. Last year, eleven welfare workplaces with NPO

opened new marketing networks. AAR Japan will

Shinsei in Koriyama as a focal center worked together tocontinue to extend support to this new cooperative

create Polvorón Magic Cookies. This year, using thesystem among welfare workplaces for smooth operation.

M essa ge

Since day one after the earthquake, AAR Japan has consistently engaged insupporting people with disabilities. Right after the earthquake, we have provided emergency relief
goods, and after that, worked to restore people s basic livelihoods through repairing damaged
welfare workplaces and establishing new ones in evacuation places. While life as an evacuee isprolonged, we had numerous discussions with the staﬀ at the welfare workplaces about what kindof aid could give back a sense of purpose to people with disabilities and lead to their greater
participation in society, and came up with this cooperative project. Aid organization s capacity andexpertise to immediately respond to arising needs is called for.

A study group of aid organizations ©Minpuku

Building Sustainable Aid Structures byStrengthening Connections Among Aid
Organizations in Iwaki City
Aid recipientorganization

The New Shape of Coordination
Support as We Move into a
New Phase of Recovery

Minpuku (NPO in Fukushima)
Sticker design awards ceremony at Mazari-na Interaction Salon ©Minpuku

YAMANAKA Tsutomu

Programme Coordinator
JPF Domestic Division, Fukushima

Minpuku was founded in 2012, a year after the

projects: issuance of newsletter Ippo Ippo (One Step,

earthquake, with the purpose of forming a network

One Announcement) and creation Mazari-na , a salon

among the aid organizations which engage in provision

where local people can interact.

of support to disaster victims in Iwaki City. In the ﬁrst
The ﬁeld of coordination aid as part of the aid provided after the Great East Japan Earthquake is growing in importance.
There is a need to coordinate by further specifying tasks through integration of already-existing systems and structures. Until
now, aid workers such as life support counselors of social welfare councils have watched over the general welfare in
emergency temporary housing. Now in the current phase that people move into public disaster housing or their own houses
rebuilt after the disaster, coordination systems to look after the people with more serious issues of poverty and psychologicalare needed where social welfare councils and psychological care centers serve as the central ﬁgure while NPOs/NGOs andprivate organizations extends support. Examples of coordination between public entities and NPOs/NGOs would be acomprehensive coordination of food banks and psychosocial care, and of local resources and social welfare councils to
support older people left in remote or lightly populated areas far from the centers of municipalities.
While coordination was exercised at the local area level, from now on, coordination needs to cross the boundaries

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OSA Yukie(Chairperson)

In the ﬁfth year since the disaster, it has become more

year after the disaster, NPOs, groups, and volunteers

diﬃcult for organizations in Iwaki City to carry out aid

provided whatever support they can oﬀer at the places

activities independently. With the support from JPF,

where they identiﬁed needs without any coordination

Minpuku continues to support networking among aid

among them. Recognizing the necessity of more eﬀective

organizations so that aid groups and organizations are

and eﬃcient aid work, Minpuku organized liaison

able to carry out eﬀective and eﬃcient aid activities inmeetings among aid workers to share information. In

cooperation with others.

these meetings, we decided to implement cooperative

M essa ge

In Iwaki City, both several thousand evacuated citizens who lost their homes in theearthquake or tsunami, and about 23,000 people evacuated from Futaba District after the TEPCO

of administrative zones and municipal areas. In particular, when moving from town development to industrial

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident are living. This situation has created unfair feeling among thedevelopment and then to employment promotion, eﬀective aid will be possible only through coordination amongevacuees over the disparities in reparation money. Even though there is no quick or simple solution,

diﬀerent sectors. Another signiﬁcant example of required coordination is damages caused by wild animals such as

Minpuku, as an intermediary aid organization for NPOs, in addition to networking activities using The

boars in Fukushima: since administrative boundaries mean nothing to wild animals, coordination between

Living Together fund, we will work on community-building projects in public recovery housing

municipalities that transcends administrative zones is needed.

where evacuees from the nuclear accident which was commissioned by Fukushima Prefecture.

HASEGAWA Hideo(Chairman)

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Strengthening
Aid to Fukushima

The recovery of the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake inFukushima Prefecture, who were affected by the nuclear disaster, hasbeen slow in comparison with those in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures.
JPF will continue its aid to Fukushima until fiscal year 2018.

Current conditions and future challenges in Fukushima
Within and outside of Fukushima Prefecture, about 89,000

Flexible container bags in
Tomioka, full of radioactive
waste (dirt, branches, rubbleetc.) uncovered fromdecontamination work ©JPF

people are still living as evacuees under orders. As of 2016,
the number of deaths related to the earthquake has
exceeded 2,000. In 2015, the number of suicides attributable

1

Once the evacuation orders are lifted, people who have been
living as evacuees outside the designated evacuation areas
under orders will be classed as voluntary evacuees, whichmeans public aid will be terminated. Although Fukushima
Prefecture is considering housing subsidies for voluntaryevacuation, it will not be enough for living. In order to cope withthis issue, a comprehensive aid strategy initiated by local
authorities and social welfare councils to support voluntaryevacuees living in poverty is called for.

3

Continuation and fulfillment ofaid for psychological care

In Fukushima, psychological care specialists for disaster victims
falls short of demands. An enabling solution to bolster aid will
be effective utilization of specialists who come to provide aid
temporarily, and capacity building on aid for psychological care
to local groups and community leaders care.

Temporary Shops in
Naraha where theevacuation order was lifted
in September 2015 ©JPF

2

Rebuilding communities when people return

Another challenge is reorganizing communities of people whohave returned to areas where evacuation orders have been
lifted. Since it is expected that the great majority of returnees
will be elderly people, necessary support will be creation ofmutual assisting comprehensive local care system to help thereturnees find purpose in life.

4

Ensuring children s rights and a healthy
environment for children to grow up

In Fukushima, the number of reports from the children s
consultation center for child abuse and intervention by thepolice has doubled from 67 in 2014 to 128 in 2015. After theearthquake, family environments have worsened due todeclining industry, closing factories, and divorce. As aconsequence, the number of children in poverty is growing, andchildren s nutritional situations have become chronic in someplaces. One of the important counter measures is food kitchensfor children. We must be more attentive to children s welfare.

Current State in Areas Where Evacuation
Orders Have Been Lifted, and Activities in
Preparation for People s Return

five years, evacuees in Fukushima have moved from place to place, and when evacuation orders are lifted or plans to lift
them are announced, they have to decide if they should return, settle permanently in the places to which they evacuated,or search for another place to settle. They confront many difficult problems such as the effects of radiation, employment

continued in the long term in areas that government is unable to cover; andinformation about the local area should be communicated in a timely way.
The attendees (113 people from businesses, NGOs, and embassies, along withprivate citizens) commented that We agree that Fukushima s evacuees are internallydisplaced persons,From a long-term standpoint, aid that is not asked to show

immediate results is also necessary, and the greatest aid that businesses can provide
is in the area of employment.

Chatting time with International NGOs about Fukushima
Rather than one-way transmission of information, the Chatting Time series was planned as a way for all participants
to think together about aid collaboration with people who continue to work in the disaster-affected areas.

Supporting Fukushima Through Collaboration 1
Held on Friday, December 11, 2015 at Fujifilm Photo Salon Space 2 in Tokyo

In the first section, the JPF member organizations, AAR Japan and Shanti Volunteer Association, reported their activities
that they are carrying out with local collaborators. In the second section, AAR Japan, JPF, and aid recipient organizations:
Fukushima Renkei Fukko Center; and 3.11 Hisaisha wo Shien suru Iwaki Renraku Kyogikai, held a panel discussion titled
Collaboration between Intermediary Aid Organizations and Local entities.
The panel discussion described how government, business, and private groups have usedtheir specialized knowledge and strengths to create various collaborations in the past, andaid delivery is difficult (the elderly, people with disabilities, women, children, etc.).

WADA Tomoyuki

Odaka Worker s Base, Inc.,

accompanied the Great East Japan Earthquake, and all of its residents continue to live as evacuees. In July 2016 theevacuation order was lifted, but challenges for the future abound.
Significant imbalance is expected in the composition of the population that returns after the lifting of the evacuation order.
According to a survey of residents intentions conducted by Minamisoma City from January to March 2015, only about 14%
of residents have decided to return to the Odaka area, and 55% of these are single member households or elderly people(over the age of 65). A particularly significant challenge is how to support the livelihoods of members of elderly households
returning alone to areas in which neighborhood communities have broken down.
Odaka Worker s Base, Inc. is developing projects in the Odaka area with the statedmission of creating 100 businesses out of the 100 challenges facing the area.
Specifically, it is putting energy into the creation of projects that will form theinfrastructure for daily life in the area, such as a co-working space, the Odaka Lunch
cafeteria (closed on March 11,2016), and a temporary supermarket, Higashimachi
Veranda Shop. It is also working on production and marketing of glass jewelry to set
the scene for women to work in the Odaka area and to increase exchanges among the13

At this symposium, after the screening of video messages from aid organizations in Fukushima, a panel discussion withexperts was held to consider what disaster victims in Fukushima need right now, and what we can do about it. In these

how these collaborations have brought about fine-tuned support to reach people to whom

The entire Odaka area of Minamisoma was designated as an evacuation area because of the nuclear accident that

population of young people.

What is happening right now and what we can do

Held on Monday, November 16, 2015 at Le Port Kojimachi in Tokyo

recognized as being that of internally displaced persons, and their individual choices should be respected: aid should beat 20 millisieverts per year. In this new phase, some of the

Housing and the safety net

Emergency Appeal for Fukushima:international perspective and according to international regulations, the situation of Fukushima s evacuees should beorders will be lifted for the areas where radiation is measured※1：Reconstruction Agency, reported on 29 July, 2016

The Fukushima Symposium

status, and basic infrastructure like hospitals and shops. In the panel discussion the opinion was expressed that, from anto the earthquake rose to 19. In the coming years, evacuation

following immediate challenges are expected to arise.

Fukushima Events

1 This event was held with the cooperation of the Photo Volunteer Japan Fund, which donated a
portion of its sales as ﬁnancial support for JPF s Fukushima activities.

We Do Not Forget: A project for continuing psychological care in Fukushima 2
Held on Monday, March 28, 2016 in Arrupe Hall at St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Kojimachi, Tokyo

The Nagomi Center for psychological care in the greater Souma area and Médicins du Monde which continues tosend medical experts to Fukushima, reported on the current situation and challenges the people of Fukushima arefacing. An Analog Twitter was set up where participants could freely write their questions and opinions on slips ofpaper and post them. Many murmurs were generated regarding the current situation: no one can see a way out of;
the exhaustion of aid workers; the possible negative impact in continuing aid; the difficult position of evacuees both
inside and outside of the prefecture; and the difficulty of maintaining people s interest in the Fukushima situation.
The meeting was an opportunity for audience as well as organizers to notice that supplementing one another sstrengths and weaknesses is a useful and effective way to deepen understanding of
the local people, and particularly for audience, it was an opportunity to realize that
Fukushima s issues are not what s happening far away but those may happen
around them.
2 The fourth undertaking of this project (from January 1 to December 31, 2016) was fundedpartially by the donation from the NTT Docomo Group and its employee volunteers throughthe 23rd Living Together Fund.

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The Great East Japan Earthquake:
Cooperation and Coordination Among
Aid Workers in the Aid Programs

JPF s Future Development in Emergency
Response to Domestic Disasters

AKUTSU Yukihiko

JPF Domestic Division Manager
and Head of Tohoku Office〜Making use of the Lessons Learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake in the Next Disaster〜〜Examining the networks connecting various aid groups〜
In providing aid to victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake, JPF has been putting its energy not only into theprojects subsidizes, but also into the formation of networks that connect aid providing organizations. From theprevious ﬁscal year JPF has been working on examining these networks. In 2015, to delve deeper into the details in ascholarly way, it has expanded the target range for its interviews and surveys, receiving the cooperation of many
intermediary aid organizations and network organizations.

international NGOs, have been forced to withdraw from the disaster-affected areas due to such reasons as finances.
JPF has decided to continue its aid projects for disaster victims in East Japan while focusing on Fukushima. In Iwate
Prefecture and Miyagi Prefecture, however, JPF will accept applications to the Living Together Fund only through the

JPF and the Kobe Institute of Urban Research have continued their survey from 2014 on the network organizations 1 formed by
NPOs/NGOs and administrative bodies in the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. This year, we gained a thoroughgrasp of the formative process of network organizations in the disaster-affected areas and the state of their activities, and clarified
formative factors. Furthermore, we made suggestions for the formation of network organizations which function effectively. In theinvestigation, we gathered data about network organizations, carried out interviews with related organizations, and performed ananalysis based on the concepts of social network analysis and the theory of organizational relationships.
Our results show that the structures of the network organizations in the three disaster-affected prefectures. We found that in
Iwate, non-local NPOs and NGOs are at the center of network organizations, in Miyagi, local public organizations are at the center,and network organizations in Fukushima are centered on local NPOs and NGOS. Furthermore, we found that the most importantfactors in determining the effectiveness of network organizations activities are whether local organizations or local governments
took an initiative for the establishment of the network organization, whether the connections between participating organizations
existed before the disaster, and whether the organization had defined its purpose and took a long-term view.
Based on this information, the following strategies are recommended for forming effectively-functioning network organizations:●Before disaster strikes
The formation of NPOs and NGOs in a variety of fields should be encouraged, and NPOs/NGOs andgovernments should make clear of their roles for working together to respond to disaster;●In time of disaster
Local organizations and local governments plays the central role, while non-local groups take anadvisory role; The foremost need for non-local organizations is to build relationships of trust withresidents and governments in the disaster-affected areas.
1 The bodies which hold information sharing meetings open to a wide range of aid workers and organizations,and their leaders and participants engage in such activities as exchange of information, aid coordination, andpromotion of cooperation.

With regard to aid projects for victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the five-years designated by the national
government as the Concentrated Reconstruction Period have passed, and many aid organizations, including

first half of fiscal year 2016, and projects in Iwate and Miyagi will end in March 2017. While strengthening anddeveloping collaboration with local NPOs, including each prefecture s Recovery Collaboration Center, we will movetoward a posture of encouraging locally-led independent recovery.

Making use of the lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake in the future
From the second half of fiscal year 2016 into fiscal year 2017, JPF will work on examining past projects to aid
disaster victims in East Japan implemented. The examination will be conducted objectively and comprehensively toclarify how JPF responded to changing phases of recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake, and what functions
and roles it took on. In analyzing JPF s projects in East Japan, outside experts and the JPF office are preparing a planfor examination according to three key points: its role as a subsidizing organization, its role as a coordinator, and its
role as a point of contact for recovery aid by businesses. To improve the emergency humanitarian support that we
provide in the future, we will use this work of examination as a way to pass on the knowledge, experience andknowhow cultivated in East Japan for the sake of the next disaster as it is our mission and responsibility.

Continuation of aid to Fukushima
Disaster victims in Fukushima Prefecture including evacuees to radiation free areas inside and outside of Fukushima
face many challenges. JPF will continue the Living Together Fund for them at least until fiscal year 2018. The
government has announced that it plans to lift evacuation orders and permit returns by March 2017 for restricted
residence areas and for the area being prepared for the lifting of the evacuation order, but not for thedifficult-to-return zone, and announced its policy that reparation payments for emotional reasons will be cut off as of
HONJO Yuichi

Kobe Institute ofUrban Research

March 2018. Therefore, the greatest challenge in Fukushima at present is that people must decide to return to theirhometowns or stay at evacuated towns. JPF has decided that from a humanitarian perspective, it must collaborate
with local NPOs to continue providing fair, just, and swift aid for people who return, who are worried about returning,
and who, for a variety of reasons including uncertainty about damage to their children s health, choose not to return or

Significance of forming network of aid actors for supporting
the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake

cannot return.

Interviews revealed eﬀorts made by many actors both known and unknown. JPF made a complete record of theirexperiences, hardships, and accomplishments including JPF s contribution for eﬃciency enhancement support, for the
future reference.
Answers to our questionnaire revealed that eﬀective coordination was exercised to avoid overlaps and omissions: there
are sector-wise networks such as distribution of relief supplies, support for children, and salon activities. Furthermore, theanswers revealed that networks contributed to information sharing among aid actors and to eﬀective aid activities as 189
out of 207 responding organizations commented networking with other organizations has positive merit.
Additionally, initiators of prefectural-level networks analyzed through workshops that there are two types of
networks: being formed by necessity and being formed purposely and strategically, and required disposition of
networks vary depending on the issue to work on: enhancing immediate eﬀect; pursuing comprehensiveness; or actingfrom multiple angles.
Examination of networking is not yet complete. We invite other entities to work on this topic so that what welearned from the Great East Japan Earthquake will be used eﬀectively for the expected great disasters such as Nankai
trough earthquake and Tokai earthquakes to minimize damages, to help victims overcome diﬃculties, and bring about
quick recovery.
JPF Domestic Division

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Town of Tomioka in 2015, left just as it was after the earthquake when all residents evacuated. ©JPF

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Messages from the Companies and Organizations

Four of the companies and organizations among those of you that have continually supported

that Provide Ongoing Support to JPF

for your warm support and encouragement. We will keep carrying out our work diligently, andJAPAN PLATFORM s activities in ﬁscal year 2015 have sent us their messages. We are grateful
we hope for your continued support.

We listened to local needs so that

We have decided to support JPF throughour business can contribute to

our Survey Donation program, honoring
JPF s leading role in Great East JapanSHIMIZU Hisayuki

Earthquake recovery activities.

earthquake recovery aid

MORIKAWA Satoshi

CSR Promotion Group
Corporate Planning Division
General Planning Headquarters
Noritz Corporation

CEO
DEF, IncOn the GCNJ Kansai subcommittee, about 40 Kansai businesses and other organizations which endorse the United
Nations Global Compact exchange information about CSR and develop their activities. As a part of this, in order to
At DFF, we provide Click Donation and Survey Donation program online, which sponsoring companies makedonations to NPOs, based on the number of clicks and survey responses from the public users. Thanks to the
combined goodwill of over eight million people, the donations that our company has made through these activities
have exceeded 450 million yen.
Soon after the Great East Japan Earthquake, we added East Japan Recovery Aid as an aid destination for our
Survey Donation program, and we have decided to support JPF as one of the recipient organizations. We highly
respect and value JPF s swift response in the aftermath of the great earthquake, and their smooth coordination withdiverse organizations, which is indispensable especially in the wake of a grave disaster.
Five years have passed since the disaster. Although recovery is gradually proceeding, we must acknowledge the factthat many people still reside in temporary housing. We believe JPF will continuously be a great source of support for
mid-long term recovery, utilizing JPF s extensive experience and knowledge they have accumulated through relief
programs around the world. It is a great honor to be able to indirectly back up JPF s relief efforts, by sending goodwill
generated over the Internet.

consider the work that our company does, people wanted to know more about the recovery situation and needs in theareas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, so we invited a lecturer from JPF to speak to us.
The speech from JPF, which works closely with disaster-affected areas, made us feel as though we were there, andwe learned that as recovery progresses, new challenges are arising, such as community-building. We also learned thatmany people are in need of aid, including the elderly and socially disadvantaged people. It is difficult for those of us
who are far away to learn sound information about the disaster-affected areas or to grasp the needs there accurately,
but we felt that it is extremely important as we consider recovery aid.
Our company suffered in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and workers and the company worked together tocontinue recovery aid to Kobe through financial aid and volunteer activities. Right after the Great East Japan
Earthquake, we delivered shower equipment to people forced to live for a long time as evacuees. Since the following
year, along with many other volunteers and based on local information, we have been helping children who lost theirparents in the earthquake to continue their studies after they graduate from high school.
In the exchange of opinions after the lecture that day, we felt interested in what was happening in thedisaster-affected area, and people expressed the opinion that it is important for us to continue our work. For thisreason, we hope that JPF will continue to disseminate information in the future.

As a construction company contributing to

Our stockholders participate in recovery

society through maintenance of infrastructure,

aid to disaster-affected through a

we continue recovery aid to disaster-affectedareas together with our employees

SUEZUMI Hitoshi

stockholders reward program

Manager, CSR Department
Obayashi Corporation

SAKANOUE Shigeki

Manager, Shareholder Relations
Office of President
NSD Co.LTD.

Since 2006, our company has implemented a stockholders reward program in which we issue points to stockholders
Since just after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the Obayashi group has devoted its full strength to first-response
including assessing damage to buildings and infrastructure, emergency reconstruction, and aid to local society throughmunicipal governments. Now, five years after the earthquake, we are moving toward town development for recovery,
working on construction of residential areas, schools, areas for commerce and industry, and recovery roads.
Furthermore, we are continuing recovery aid to disaster-affected areas through our company s matching gift program,which encourages social contribution activities by our employees. In 2015, we entrusted donations received throughthis system to JPF, which put them to use on aid activities in the Tohoku region. The reason that we entrusted our
employees charity to JPF is that, along with its record of activities, JPF gave us a detailed explanation of how thefunds were to be used. Through explanations in our company newsletter of how donations were being used, ouremployees were able to deepen their understanding of aid activities in the Tohoku region.
Our company will continue to extend recovery aid to disaster-affected areas in the future through our matching gift
program. We expect great things from JPF s work in the future.

based on the number of shares they hold and the length of time they have held them, and they can selectcomplementary products from a catalog.
Recently, more and more companies are adding donations to their stockholders reward products as part of their CSR,
but our company has included donations among its reward products from the very beginning, when we started ourstockholders reward program.
When the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred, along with the recovery aid to disaster-affected areas that ourcompany provided on its own, we began to add donations to the disaster-affected area to the menu of stockholders
rewards from that year, and in the five years since then, we have been working with our stockholders on recovery aid
by delivering their donations. Stockholders have been very happy, telling us that they are able to make contributions tosociety in a casual way.
The kind donations that we have received from our stockholders during the past five years have been put to use inrecovery aid through JPF. Although signs of recovery are beginning to appear, the fact that support is needed has notchanged, so our company will continue its recovery aid for the disaster-affected areas with the participation ofstockholders through our stockholders reward program.

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Toward Initiatives for BusinessSupport and Business Coordination
Each month, we distribute a needs matrix chart on the

Great East Japan Earthquake and disaster-affected areas
Since 2013, JPF has distributed a Needs Matrix Chart for Aid to Disaster-Affected Areas that lists needs andchallenges in disaster-affected areas, aid organizations that respond to them, and policies set by governments, dividingthem into categories by type of aid. Beginning when almost three years had passed since the earthquake, aid needs
became more and more diverse, and the desire of business to know what was presently required became more urgent.
Taking the opportunity afforded by these requests, JPF staff in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima began to update anddistribute this matrix chart every month, utilizing the advantage of having everyday on-site interactions throughmonitoring of subsidized projects and network meetings. At present, main recipients of the matrix chart include not
only organizations specializing in aid, like NPOs and NGOs, but also businesses.
It is clear that a very long time is still needed for recovery in the disaster-affected areas, and the sustainability of aid
activities themselves will need to be improved. The organizational ability and financial power of business will besignificant force for the aid activities. Moreover, businesses can have a stronger impact than anything else on vitalizing
the areas in Tohoku, not only through aid activities, but by entering the Tohoku region as part of their regular business.
JPF hopes that finally, even if outside aid like ours is no longer present, disaster victims and the local NGOs andNPOs will be able to continue their efforts toward recovery under their own power, and we want to proactively link
Tohoku with outside businesses. We hope that business representatives will learn about needs in disaster-affectedareas in a timely way, and that they will look at this matrix chart as a source of help when they are thinking about what
they can do, either by themselves or in collaboration with local NGOs and NPOs.
In the future, using this matrix chart as a basis, we will not only provide information about challenges, but will work
toward the establishment of a plan to proactively show businesses what they need to do to address these challenges.
Apart from this, we also respond to requests for information sessions within companies on the current situation indisaster-affected areas, for support in arranging visits to the area, and for matching with local NGOs and NPOs. Anybusiness representatives who would like to inquire about receiving copies of the matrix chart or any other mattersshould not hesitate to contact us.

Companies and Organizations That Provide Support to JPF We are grateful for your warm support.
Businesses and organizations that made ﬁnancial donations〈 Fiscal year 2015〉
ASK Corporation

Natural Set

Astellas Pharma Inc.

Nosan Corporation

Anritsu Labor Union

Negoro Stonemason LLC

AEON Bank Fundraiser to Aid Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Public Resources Foundation

NSD

Hitachi Inspharma, Inc.

NTT Docomo Group and its employees

fabCouture.com

OBAYASHI CORPORATIONPHOTO VOLUNTEER JAPAN FUNDOBAYASHI CORPORATION employees

BlueRise Partners Group Company, Ltd.

NPO Kizuki

My Dream Project

Good Place Co., Ltd.

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

Grano 24K

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Social Contribution Fund

Kobegyu Kisshokichi

Meiji Labor Union

Komyo-jiMeiwa E-TEC Co., Ltd.

cocotteMetal One Steel Service

The JBA FOUNDATIONYahoo Japan Corporation

Shikumio Co., Ltd.

U-Land Co., Ltd.

SHISEIDO Camellia Fund

Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd.

Serendipity, Inc.
Daiwa Securities Daiwa Point Program
TOYOTA TSUSHO staﬀ

Companies and organizations that provided support through goods and services〈 Fiscal Year 2015〉
NTT PC Communications Incorporated

BMW Group Japan

Grant Thornton Taiyo LLC

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

dentsuMori Yoichi certiﬁed public accountant oﬃce

The Japanese Institute of Certiﬁed Public Accountants

Notes: 1 Company names are listed in order according to the Japanese orthography; honorifics are omitted.
2 The names of companies and organizations providing support in fiscal year 2015 are listed. For companies and organizations
which provided support in 2014 or before, please see our past reports.
3 The names of companies and organizations which did not wish this information to be public, or from which we did notreceive donation consent forms, are not printed.
4. Furthermore, we have received many additional donations from individual donors, but have not printed their names in theinterest of preserving their privacy.

Volunteer Leave : one way for businesspeople to be personally involved in recovery
The experience of a man in his thirties who works for a manufacturer of vehicle equipment
From October 2013 to September 2015, I utilized the volunteer leave system at the company where I work and was engaged inrecovery activity. For some time after the disaster I had been involving in it as an individual volunteer on my days off, but the ideathat I would like to support recovery more deeply began to grow in me, so I chose to take volunteer leave in order to engage inrecovery work over a longer term, while remaining part of my company.
I participated in recovery aid, based in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture starting from October 2013, and then in JPF based in Tokyo from
December 2014. When they hear volunteer leave, many people may think, What could I do? In my case, I worked for arecovery aid organization, and mainly supported that organization s and project management. Specifically; finding efficient ways tomanage meetings, collecting information related to recovery, preparing for implementing the projects (such as schedulemanagement, budget management, and coordinating with other organizations) and following up (such as taking minutes ofmeetings, calculating expenses, analyzing surveys). Most people might get the impression that this is unglamorous, and at the sametime might feel that it is same as what they normally do at their companies. That is completely correct.
Many of aid organization involving in recovery of the Great East Japan Earthquake were established after the disaster, and someof them are facing labor shortages in charge of organizational or project management. For these organizations, businesspeople
Introducing the matrix chart at the Fukushima symposium ©JPF

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Utilization of funds from NTT Docomo Group s employee fundraising fordisaster assistance project through the Living Together Fund
©Kodomo Mugen Kanpani

who normally work on the management in their companies can be a significant source of support.
It may be difficult for most people to get volunteer leave, but recovery is now entering a crucial stage. If there is anyone whowants to begin supporting recovery now, please think about how he or she can be involved, and then take the first step.

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List of projects funded by "Living Together" FundThe 20th through the 24th Screenings (FY2015)※All organizations are registeredd non-profit entities.

Project Description

Project
Venue

Project
PeriodContracted
AmountCommunity Aid
PEACE BOAT Disaster Relieve Volunteer Center

Publishing "Temporary Housing News" and hand-delivering it while checking on evacuees in Ishinomaki, Miyagi

2015/4/1

2016/3/31¥9,558,000

Furusato Machizukuri Nine Towm

2015/4/1

2016/1/31¥5,577,000

2015/5/1

2015/7/31¥2,232,500

2015/4/1

2015/6/30¥1,635,970

Osaki Chiiki Souzou Kenkyukai

Nurturing human resources through workshops for youth committee members, road beautification events, anddeveloping seafood and farm products to sell at the community store in Minanisanriku, Miyagi
Revitalizing local communities through holding gathering café, publishing newsletters, and forming groups andcurriculum community infrastructure to enhance mutual support in Sendai, Miyagi
Forming communities through exercise, knitting classes, café, health checks, and consultation sessions for evacuees
in temporary housing and for local people in Kesennuma, Miyagi
Farming/cooking events for evacuees in temporary and recovery housings and surveys of their current situation in
Osaki, Miyagi

2015/4/1

2015/6/30¥917,000

SwitchInternships to prevent youth form leaving their hometowns for cities in Miyagi (Phase Ⅲ)

2015/4/1

2016/3/31¥7,489,000

Nippon International Cooperation forCommunity Development（NICCO）

2015/3/24

2016/3/23¥9,897,092

2015/4/1

2016/3/31¥6,760,452

Worker's Coop

Assisting "Fish Market 38", a newly established local organization, with self-supporting management of marine productprocessing and sales, to empower the Karakuwa fishing community in Kesennuma, Miyagi (Phase Ⅱ)
Lectures by experts, study tours and training sessions to develop human resources for solving regional issues in
Miyagi and Fukushima
Supporting residents' associations in public recovery housing through events and classes, and house calls to checkon residents in Otsuchi, Iwate

2015/4/1

2015/6/30¥2,396,000

Yume Net Ofunato

Handicrafts classes at temporary and recovery housings, and hand-delivery of "Rehabilitation News" in Iwate

2015/4/1

2016/3/31¥5,761,800

Ai Net Takata

Free transportation service for the elderly and the disabled in Rikuzentakata, Iwate

2015/4/1

2015/6/30¥935,000

Machizukuri Gurutto Osuchi

2015/4/1

2016/3/31¥4,831,000

The People

Handicrafts workshops for evacuees in temporary housing and handicrafts sales at a local shopping center and on
the Internet in Otsuchi, Iwate
Operating the Onahama Reconstruction Support Volunteer Center and Onahama Exchange Salon, and training
staff members in Iwaki, Fukushima

2015/4/1

2016/3/31¥5,517,008

Tasukeai no Kai Fureai Net Matsudo

Handicrafts classes and events; consultation visits to support the evacuees from Fukushima to Chiba

2015/4/1

2015/9/30¥5,740,000

Chiiki Zukuri Support Net

2015/4/20

2016/3/19¥4,273,800

Workers' Coop

"Hidamari Exchange Salon" for evacuees from Fukushima to Shizuoka, events with local people, Mt.Fuji tours, publishing
Fukushima information booklets
Supporting residents' associations in public recovery housing through events and classes at the community center,and house calls to check on residents in Otsuchi, Iwate

2015/7/1

2016/6/30¥9,177,000

Ai Net Takata

Free transportation service for the elderly and the disabled in Rikuzentakata, Iwate

2015/7/1

2016/6/30¥2,444,000

Yamagata 1

Providing information for the evacuees from Fukushima to Yamagata to strengthen ties in Yamagata

2015/7/1

2015/9/30¥879,000

Kanagawa Hinansha to Tomoni Ayumu Kai

Supporting the community of the evacuees from Fukushima to Kanagawa to rebuild their life(Phase Ⅰ)

2015/6/15

2015/9/15¥411,000

Ishinomaki Sports Shinko Support Center

2015/10/1

2016/9/30¥2,631,984

SAVE IWATE

Providing salon activities, vegetable gardens, Karaoke, and cooking and handicraft classes, wine tasting, and movie
screening at HANA House for Community Development of Kazuma District in Ishinomaki, Miyagi
Maintaining the local community of Unosumai district in Kamaishi, Iwate through traditional folk dance class andperformances in Tokyo

2015/10/1

2016/9/30¥6,921,000

Kanagawa Hisaisha to Tomoni Ayumu Kai

Supporting the community of the evacuees from Fukushima to Kanagawa to rebuild their life (Phase Ⅱ)

2015/10/1

2016/3/31¥3,294,000

Fukko Minasan Kai

Providing necessary information for those who will relocate from temporary housing to public recovery housing, andsupporting community-building among them in Minamisanriku Iwate (Phase Ⅰ)

2015/12/21 2016/3/20¥1,300,000

Nijiiro Kureyon

Community-building through provision of play grounds and art classes at the public disaster housing in Ishinomaki, Miyagi 2016/1/1

2016/3/31¥782,180

Kodomo Mugen Kanpani

2016/1/1

2016/3/31¥1,000,000

Fukushima Saisei no Kai

Construction of the wood deck for the children's' play house where children, parents, local residents gather in
Ishinomaki, Miyagi
Radiation dose measurement, test planting of vegetables and rice, cattle grazing, and maintaining Reizan gathering
center to make preparations for the returnees to Iidate, Fukushima

2015/10/1

2015/12/31¥2,009,558

Nijiiro Kureyon

Community-building through provision of play grounds and art classes at the public disaster housing in Ishinomaki、Ｍｉｙａｇｉ 2016/4/1

2017/3/31¥8,334,800

Fukko Minasan Kai

2016/4/1

2017/3/31¥3,750,000

Kodomo Mugen Kanpani

Providing necessary information for those who will relocate from temporary housing to public recovery housing, andsupporting community-building among them in Minamisanriku, Miyagi (Phase Ⅱ)
Installing water supply and sewage system to the children's playground to make the place where multiple generations cangather, play, and talk in Ishinomaki, Miyagi

2016/4/1

2017/3/31¥6,823,427

SwitchInternships to prevent youth form leaving their hometowns for cities in Miyagi (Phase Ⅳ)

2016/4/1

2017/3/31¥8,003,600

Tsudoi2016/4/1

2016/6/30¥2,533,596

Ibasho Souzou Projects

Strengthening the community-based social welfare system in Otsuchi, Iwate, through holding salon and cafe whereresidents make use of a local resource
Holding the consultation sessions for those who moved from temporary housing, and promoting interaction of newresidents and local residents at "Ibasho House"

2016/4/1

2016/6/30¥2,682,520

Yume Net Ofunato

Handicrafts classes at temporary and recovery housings and distribution of "Rehabilitation News"

2016/4/1

2017/3/31¥2,511,000

Kanagawa Hinanbsha to Tonmoni Ayumu Kai

Supporting the community of the evacuees from Fukushima to Kanagawa to rebuild their life (Phase Ⅱ)

2016/4/1

2016/9/30¥3,111,000

2015/4/1

2016/3/31¥5,172,000

Manabi no Mori

Holding community salon and dispatching nurses and doctors to care for the elderly and the disabled who evacuatedfrom towns contaminated by radioactivity in Ishinomaki, Miyagi
Learning support for elementary and middle school students in temporary housing, and special support for middle
school students who refuse to go to school in Miyagi

2015/4/1

2015/6/30¥2,700,000

Kokkyo naki Kodomotachi

Provision of mobile children's Center, excursion, and exchanging events for the children in Rikuzentakata, Iwaki

2015/4/1

2016/2/15 ¥10,000,000

Maam Takata

Creating network through Women's Support Center in Rikuzentakata, Iwate

2015/4/1

2015/9/30

Food Bank IWATE

Providing food for the needy in Iwate and Miyagi

2015/4/1

2015/6/30¥985,500

ri plus

Rehabilitation trainings and local interaction programs for the elderly and the disabled in Ishinomaki, Miyagi

2015/7/1

2016/2/29¥4,402,804

S Space

Rehabilitating disabled children who evacuated from Fukushima to Miyagi

2015/7/1

2016/6/30 ¥10,000,000

Kokoro no Kakehashi Iwate

Training of local mental health workers through IT in Iwate

2015/7/1

2016/6/30

Food Bank IWATE

Providing food for the needy in Iwate and Miyagi

2015/7/1

2015/9/30¥993,536

Shinsei

Safety-net project for the disabled by providing places to work and to exchange with local people in Koriyama, Fukushima

2015/7/1

2016/3/30¥9,949,655

Food Bank IWATE

Providing food for the needy in Iwate and Miyagi

2015/10/1

2016/3/31¥3,111,086

AsagaoCreating the new model of transportation support system for the disabled in Souma and Minami Souma in Fukushima

2015/10/1

2016/9/30¥9,682,016

Médecins du Monde Japon

Dispatching psychiatrists and nurses to support the Nagomi Mental Clinic in Soso district, Fukushima

2016/1/1

2016/12/31 ¥6,952,802

ri plus

Rehabilitation trainings and local interaction programs for the elderly and the disabled in Ishinomaki, Miyagi

2016/4/1

2017/2/28¥9,646,878

Cannus Tohoku

Holding community salon and dispatching nurses and doctors to care for the elderly and the disabled who evacuatedfrom towns contaminated by radioactivity in Ishinomaki, Miyagi

2016/4/15

2016/7/14¥1,495,460

Food Bank IWATE

Providing food for the needy in Iwate and Miyagi

2016/4/1

2017/3/31¥5,347,080

Shinsei

Safety-net project for the disabled by providing places to work and to exchange with local people in Koriyama, Fukushima

2016/4/1

2017/3/31¥9,989,170

ShalomHolding of a symposium and publishing a booklet about the protection of children's rights and life in Fukushima

2016/4/1

2016/6/30¥1,744,096

Personal Support Center
Seikatsu Shien Project K

FratTohoku

Safety-Net Aid
Cannus Tohoku¥3,675,800¥8,290,000

Occupational Aid
2015/4/1

2016/3/31¥9,929,800

2015/4/1

2015/9/30¥4,512,200

NPO Hourai

Constructing a fish processing platnt, and assisting local producers with incorporation to revive the Kurauchi
fishing community in Miyagi
Production of commodities from reused air bags and seat belts of scrapped cars to revitalize the local community inNakoso, Fukushima
Holding a permanent farmer's market and installing the new radiation measuring device for ensuring safety ofselling products in Ｆｕｋｕｓｈ
ｉｍａ

2016/1/1

2016/12/31 ¥4,598,000

Fish Market 38

Operation of maine product processing and sales to revitalize the Karakuwa fishing community in Kesennuma, Miyagi

2016/4/1

2016/6/30¥996,000

Promoting the cooperative business "Polvolon Magic Cookies"among diability work places, and launching a new
business selling the fabric articles in Fukushima
Coordination support for collaboration system among the administration, NPOs and disaster prevention
organizations in Ishinomaki, in Miyagi

2015/7/1

2016/3/31¥9,942,196

Mirai Support Ishinomaki

2015/9/16

2016/9/15¥7,554,000

Miyako Labo

Project of management preparations for the Miyako NPO Support Room in Miyako, Iwate

2015/10/1

2015/12/31¥736,750

Minpuku

Reinforcement of Supporters' Network in Fukushima

2016/1/1

2016/12/31 ¥7,818,560

Shanti Volunteer Association
Nakoso City Planning Support Centre

Income and Expenditure Report (March 11, 2011-March 31, 2016)
Income ¥ 7,225,248,279
Remaining funds donatedfor aid programs to victimsof domestic disasters

Expenditure ¥ 7,225,248,279

Material donations

Material donations¥36,826,374 worth¥36,826,374 worth
JPF Coordination andMonitoring project¥933,286¥411,070,218(Including ￥36,897,075
in FY2015)

Donations

Subsidies throughLiving Together Fund

¥7,187,488,619

1,368,192,760円(Including ￥33,864,603 in FY2015)(Including ￥213,264,278 in FY2015)

Funds to be used in the future¥712,810,713
Project operating
expenses¥272,550,000(Including￥30,000,000
in FY2015)

Subsidies to
JPF member NGOs

¥4,423,798,214(Including ￥185,589,202
in FY2015)

Note: The amounts shown for subsidies and JPF Office project expenses is the original amount of the budget for eachproject less the unused funds which were returned (the total sum as of March 31, 2016 was \1,082,272,241). Returnedfunds are included in funds to be used in the future.

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