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Thanks All for Kind Notes Encouraging Japan Big Earthquake hit

We are receiving many emails, kind words and notes from outside of Japan.  Two typical messages say, " I do believe that your country people can overcome all the problems, above all, for Japan, the characteristic of your people is united & pursuit the best level all the time, where is valued to be respected." and "Japan is a strong and industrious nation, people would get through from such disasters  We believe it will recover soon. Please accept our deepest sympathy and convey our best wishes to all of you"

The magnitude of the earthquake that hit Japan has been reportedly the largest in the recorded history. No one can measure an overall impact to Japan society caused by the natural disaster at this point.  Finding more, the damages becomes bigger. We still are in rescue and fact finding modes. However, it’s for sure that the Japan society should be able to overcome the extraordinary difficulties, although the big earthquake is causing catastrophic damages to Japan.

In Tokyo, we may have a little bit to change our routines of life for a while because of scheduled power outage which will reportedly continue until the end of April.  We do hope we’ll have found everything and will move forward for recovery as soon as possible.

Thanks all for the kind messages from overseas.  They are really encouraging us, Japanese society.

3/13/11

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