Letter from Blue Project Ambassador, Marvin Yasuda
Hi, Everyone .My name is Marvin Yasuda , I live here in California with my wife and son working as clothing buyer .
I am also ambassador of “ The Blue Project “ with Steven Lippman .
I wanted express my feeling and what I experienced during my business trip to Tokyo / Japan last week , when this massive earthquake hit .
That day was start with really nice weather , I meant sun was out from in the morning and very warm weather, seems like it was the one of the best day of that week .
But I notice after lunch time , when I got out from restaurant weather was start completely changed.
The sky turned so dark , The sun was hidden by very strange clouds and I notice that strange wind start blowing .
I said to my friend “ Hey what’s up with this weather . it look like heavy rain may be coming . “
Only short time after I said good bye to my friend & walking on the street in Daikanyama , approx. 2:45pm Friday the March 11th we got 1st hit .
Oh my god , it was just terrible hit / shake , just like 20seconds after start shake I notice that “ this will be really really bad one “Because the way of shake / shock was just unbelievable , whole ground I mean whole city of Tokyo was shaking / moving really bad . I felt something so deep inside of ground where I was standing was moving and I saw thousand people around me , their face were look fear and serious and we could not even stand up. It took almost 7 minutes to stop the shake but for us it was feel like 1hour .
Luckily I was safe & only 5minutes to walk to home so I went home 7 watch the news that was the time second big hit we got again …. And what we saw on TV shows some of the part in Japan got hit by Tsunami and More than 10,000 people were washed out & lost everything .
I meant “ EVERYTHING “ ….
I was super lucky that Delta air line let me fly back 2days after the happened & now I am back in LA with my wife & son .
This was absolutely most scary moment I had experienced in my life and I won’t forget .
After almost 1 week from what a happened , there are still over 600,000 people trap in a building , city hall , school , post office , park everywhere in Japan.
I heard they are sharing 1 meal out of 3, 4 people , no gasoline available to get there , actually no road open to get help .
No water , no heater … most of spot where got biggest hit are snowing right now as of I am writing …. This is not right . this should not happened .
There are little boy crying and screaming “ Mommy ! Mommy ! “ to the ocean …….
I trust Japanese people inner strength , different that other countries , and I know Japan will come stronger out of it , but it will take time .
It is like real nightmare , hard to believe than a country as sophisticated as Japan , Can fall in chaos so rapidly due to mother nature ….
We need everyone’s help now ! Japan and Japanese need serious help guys .
To understand more about what a happened in Japan, I have attached this link to watch “ Live News “ in Japan. Please take a moment and watch & learn, understand more about it.
Thank you so much for reading of my broken English .
Marvin Yasuda / Ambassador
Here is the best place to wire donation to help victims thru. “ The Japanese Red Cross Society “
Name of Bank : Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Name of Branch : Ginza
Account No: 8047670 ( ordinary Account )
SWIFT Code: SMBC JP JT
Payee Name : The Japanese Red Cross Society
Payee Address: 1-1-3 , Shiba- Daimon Minato-ku , TOKYO , JAPAN.
Above is the sending money by wire transfer thru. your bank means your bank going to charge you fee of wire and it’s between $15 ~ $ 30 depend on you bank .
If you are sending smaller amount , you can send personal Check to “ Consulate General of Japan “ in LA . info. as follows .
Payable to : Consulate General of Japan
Mail to : Consulate General of Japan 350 S. Grand Ave ., Suite # 1700 LA , CA 90071-3472.
Please indicated “ Donation for Victims of Japan Earthquake “
Thank you !
“Art by Sage Vaughn Concept by Steven Lippman”
