AKB48 has decided to release “Dareka no Tame ni -What can I do for someone?-” a track that they have performed in concerts as a charity song. The song will be sold as a digital download and all earnings will go to the ongoing relief efforts.
Legendary rock band and all around great guys Luna Sea, have come together to release their first new work in ten years “Promise”.
“Promise” is being made available as a digital download and all proceeds will go to the victims of the “Great Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake”. When trying to best decided how to help those in need, the members of Luna Sea took the road they are famous for their music.
A truly great band, with their heart in the right place, and one worth getting to know.
As mentioned earlier Up-Front Agency is putting together an earthquake charity event called “Gabaro Nippon Ai wa Katsu“and all of it`s talent roster is taking part in the event and the recording of a song. The song is a cover of KAN’s 1990 classic, “Ai wa Katsu“ and 131 members were involved in the recording of the song, including current members and former members of Hello! Project. 98 artists will sing the track live at the upcoming charity event on April 9.
Up-Front Group and it`s stable of talent is going to hold a charity event on April 9 in Yokohama.
The event is called “Tohoku Earthquake Relief ‘Ganbarou Nippon Ai wa Katsu’ ~From Yokohama with love~”, and will be held at Yokohama’s Yamashita Park, which suffered damage during the massive Kanto earthquake of 1923.
The event will feature both Hello!Project and non-Hello!Project artists involved and at the end of the live stage ,everyone will perform KAN’s classic hit “Ai wa Katsu”. The song will also go on sale the same day as a Recochoku .
Immediately following the event, the Up-Front artists will split up into two groups and take to the streets of Yokohama to collect donations at two selected locations . All revenues from both the single and the charity drive will be given to the Japanese Red Cross Society in order to provide relief for those affected by the earthquake and tsunami.
Johnny’s recently completed a three day fund-raising event at Tokyo’s Yoyogi National Stadium .Every Johnny’s member took part in the three day event with SMAP, TOKIO, Arashi, KAT-TUN, NEWS, and Kanjani8 leading the event .
As the event ended SMAP’s Kimura Takuya thanked fans, saying, “Thank you to all of you for lending us your help, two days ago, yesterday, and today.”
Johnny’s Marching J will continue for as long as needed with various events planned across the country. Johnny’s is also donating their heavy lift concert trucks to transport goods to the earthquake victims.
No word how much money or goods were collected from 389,000 fans that came to the event.
Today marks the start of first Morning Musume tour with the 9th generation .What started out as a welcoming celebration for the 9th gen members on March 11 turned into the “Great Tohoku Earthquake” relief drive. Like all artists large and small Morning Musume are doing their part to bring comfort to the shattered lives.
Leader Takahashi Ai wrote on her blog a message with details of the most recent thing that the group is undertaking. After giving personal donations, the members are organizing a fundraising campaign.
Written April 2, 2011 by Ai:
“We, Morning Musume, will begin our spring tour on 4/3 at Oomiya Sonic City.
Right now, everyone is focusing on helping the victims and restoration from the “Great Tohoku Earthquake”.
We, Morning Musume, have also been thinking about what we can do to help even just the littlest bit.
After a discussion with the members, we have decided to hold fundraising activities in the lobby of the venue for as long as time allows.
We would be so grateful to everyone who contributes even a little bit at tomorrow’s venue whether you are coming or going.
Legendary rock singer Gackt has put to the side all thoughts of making albums, for the call to help with the earthquake recovery drives that are underway.
And with that he has taken on himself a number of missions and is seeking worldwide support to achieve his dreams.
He is currently starting a four-day worldwide street collection drive .
The drive runs from March 31 to April 3 . In Japan there will be 5,000 people collecting in 123 locations.
He has posted information on his web site in several languages so that international fans can help with organizing simultaneous street campaigns in major cities around the world.
Project number 2 is a worldwide video + photo project
Gackt explained this project idea through his twitter account .
Gackt- “I have a new idea here. Would you try something else with me?”. “I want messages from people all over the world. Please take a video of yourself and your message for ‘SHOW YOUR HEART!!!’ We want you to put the videos up on You Tube starting from the 31st. It will give courage to all people in the disaster areas.”
Gackt went on to explain that supporters are to upload a video of them holding a piece of paper with “SHOW YOUR HEART” written on it, along with your own message and your current location.
Those who are unable to upload the videos to YouTube themselves can send it to GACKT directly, and he and his staff will post the videos for earthquake victims to view.
You can also send a photo and message to his charity web mail. Include the name of your city and country
T.M. Revolution will be holding a nine-hour charity live on April 2, starting at 15:00/ 3:00PM. The program called “Hisaichi ni YELL wo Okurou! Ima Koso Tachiagare NIPPON! STAND UP! JAPAN“, will be streamed live on GyaO! and by Nico Nico in a Live Broadcast.
T.M. Revolution will be supported by co-hosts/event support such as SHOGO (175R), Tsuchiya Reo (RAG FAIR, Zboned Zubon), Micro (HOME MADE Kazoku), Ono Mayumi, Tahara Souichirou, Shibata Hidetsugu (Untouchable), Tokito Ami, and Mutou Keiji (All Japan Pro Wrestling) and many more as yet unnamed .
T.M. Revolution originally planed for this to be a live attendance event , however with the continuing energy problems from the earthquake ,it was decided that a nine hour live event may put unneeded strain on the power grid and that power would best served to go to homes .
Instead the event will be live streaming and a donation project “STAND UP! JAPAN Chuou Kyoudoubokinkai“, started by T.M. Revolution will be used instead of live event ticket revenues.
If you are able to view these services and want to watch the broadcast and support the charity.
International Wota has added a number of new items to the auction list, from a number of agencies and groups.
Please help support the recovery, over 11,000 citizens will never again enjoy the sound of music and many thousands more are yet to be found. Hundreds of thousands have lost everything they own, not to mention several family members.
AKB is wasting no time and has further continued to extend their already huge omnipresence. AKB48 21st single has been set to release on May 25th 2011, title is not confirmed yet. Additionally, their 22nd single will have a Senbatsu election coming soon. For the benefit of those who do not know, it is an voting process in which AKB fans may elect which of the girls under the AKB group to participate in the new single. A great way for fans to be involved in the single production process.
In accordance to their participation of the northeast earthquake support, a portion of the proceeds from the singles sales will go to charity.
And lastly, after previous postponings, AKB48's latest album "Koko ni ita koto" have been further pushed to release on 8th June. Similarly, a portion of the album sales will also go to charity.
A new movie video clip has been made public on Youtube by SKE48. It was a video clip for the song "Ai no Kazu" performed by the group's Team K II, which is a B-side track to the single released earlier this month "Banzai Venus". Originally, "Ai no Kazu" has no PV created for it. But a video clip was made now, in hopes of the song becoming a moral support (no matter how small it maybe) to those facing difficult times due to the earthquake in northeast Japan, recently.
It was not a high cost production of any sort, just a simple video of SKE48 girls singing on their theatre stage with song lyrics running at the bottom. All for creating a new media made available for circulation.
SKE48 will reopen their theatres on the 31st of March, where on that same day Team S will perform and all proceeds from that performance will go straight to charity.
AKB48 Donates Again 600 Million Yen + 218 Location CM Campaign.
Fresh off the heels of their very generous 500 million yen donation to the Japanese Red Cross, AKB48 has made a second donation, this time for 600 million yen (approximately $7.37 million USD) to the Japanese Red Cross.
AKB48 announced this wonderful gift at a press conference at the Third Okinawa International University Film Festival on the 26th. They also announced the group would be the promotion campaign group for the upcoming election for Tokyo’s new governor. AKB48 will run ads at 218 locations across Tokyo and as part of the campaign, their single “Heavy Rotation”; will be shown once every six minutes starting April 1 at the 218 locations.
The following are some groups, agencies who have given for earthquake relief
Donation Money
Entertainment agency FLaMme, has donated 20 million yen (~$240,000 USD) they handle actresses Toda Erika, Hirosue Ryoko, Koyuki, and Kichise Michiko.
J-rock band GLAY donated 20 million yen (~$240,000 USD)
Concert/CD/ Funds Donations
Kansai based Band Dear Loving donated part of their live show revenue and collected from fans 82 boxes of colored pencils, 10 hand towels, 8 mini tote bags, 84 t-shirts, and 400 body warmers.
KPop Super Group KARA will be donating all their income from their new single “Jet Coaster Love” towards disaster relief efforts.
X JAPAN’s leader, YOSHIKI, auctioned off his beloved “crystal concert piano”
Items
Johnny & Associates announced that all their transport and power unit trucks normally used for live performances would be lent to disaster-stricken areas in Japan, free of charge.
Hamasaki Ayumi will collaborate with fashion magazine ViVi to produce a charity T-shirt for disaster relief.
The shirt will be sold on the online shop mu-mo from March 17 to March 31, and is open to international fans http://shop.mu-mo.net/avx/sv/list1?jsiteid=MSG&categ_id=5658
EXILE is sending 50,000 bottles of drinking water
Charity Songs, Free Courage Songs
Folk Singer Suzumoku has released a charity song called “Bokura wa Ningen da” (We are Humans)
Suzumoku -“I’m not sure whether or not this song will give the earthquake victims courage, but I want to give people this song without worrying about things like copyright”.
Pop duo Sukima Switch posted on their official YouTube channel titled, “Kanade March 13, 2011
Sokabe Keiichi has released his new song “Haru no Arashi” (The Storm of Spring) free of charge
The list of artists making donations is to large for me to cover them all .AKB48 donation deserves it`s own post as it shows why they are the leaders in the female idol genre.
