Reader DB says: "I've created a Facebook group to provide Japanese victims with accommodation. Right now there are about 20 offers from different countries around the world. We need help contacting Japanese locals and/or organizations so people can actually get help."
I briefly covered this in last week's column, but I'll go into a bit more depth here.
First of all, The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare told us that individual prefectures should be contacted for specific information. At this point in time, each prefectural office is generally responsible for relocating evacuees. Miyagi Prefecture (one of the worst-affected areas) said they are currently trying to move evacuees in groups to places within Japan (many, if not all, prefectures are offering free municipal housing for evacuees). They also said it would likely be a couple months before they are able to consider individual requests, due to the logistics required. Right now they have no system in place to handle individual offers of accommodation.