Retired New York Yankees greats Derek Jeter and Hideki Matsui are teaming up once again, this time in support of children in the Tohoku region.
The former MLB All-Stars will participate in the Tomodachi Charity Baseball Game on March 21, 2015, at Tokyo Dome, an event designed to help support children still feeling the effects of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. The event is being held in conjunction with the Support Our Kids Project, a program in which the embassies of nine countries and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Japan assist children from the affected areas.
"As time passes, even a disaster as terrible and devastating as the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami begins to be forgotten," Matsui said during a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Wednesday. "I think this is something people in Japan should not forget. If I'm able to somehow use my influence to try to focus attention on this area again, I hope to do so."