Amazon.com Inc's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos on Thursday turned to an unusual source of inspiration for how to donate part of his wealth: Twitter. "I want much of my philanthropic activity to be helping people in the here and now — short term — at ...
An anonymous person has willed roughly ¥40 million in savings and about ¥17 million in property to Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures on the condition the funds be used to support those orphaned by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. According to three prefectural governments, this ...
It was all a lie. A 36-year-old woman has apologized for making up a story that her 6-year-old nephew needed heart transplant surgery overseas and for holding a news conference to solicit funds for it. At the Tuesday news conference, held at the health ministry, she ...
Food drives, volunteer activities to stockpile, donate and distribute food to needy people, are increasing in Japan as poverty expands. "There are people supported by the food you donate," reads a message on the Kizuna (bond) Box in the corner of a supermarket in Ushiku, ...
Most of the ¥750 million ($6.8 million) in relief money for victims of the powerful earthquakes that hit Kumamoto Prefecture last month has not been disbursed, local government officials said Tuesday. The Kumamoto Prefectural Government transmitted the money to 25 municipalities on May 6. But ...
The Hokkaido city of Nemuro has been receiving a flood of donations from across the country after it started sending crab and other local seafood to repay the generosity of donors, who have given close to one-third of its tax revenue in the current ...
Scandal-hit economic minister Akira Amari vows to answer allegations that he and two secretaries received large undeclared donations and hospitality.
An anonymous donor left around 2,000 lottery tickets at City Hall in the city of Tochigi, with an accompanying note stating any prize money should be used to help victims of the massive flooding in eastern Japan in September, police said Tuesday. A bag containing ...
The Japan Art Association, an art charity under the patronage of Prince Hitachi, unveiled Thursday a donation of ¥100 million (about €750,000) to the Goethe-Institut, which teaches German to foreigners, in a bid to support language education for refugees arriving in Germany, the German ...
Two women with ovarian problems have produced fertile eggs through in vitro fertilization using sperm from their husbands and eggs from anonymous donors.
Prosecutors raided a dentist group's office in Tokyo on Thursday, amid allegations it exceeded political donation limits in its support of Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Midori Ishii. A special investigative arm of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office searched the office of the Japan Dental ...
Are you feeling lucky? Donors who give cash to the city of Ube in Yamaguchi Prefecture are being rewarded with unconventional thank-you gifts: lottery tickets. Since November, Ube has been sending stacks of tickets to well-wishers who make a contribution to city coffers through the state-sponsored ...
