Our mission is to work with and for community agencies and organizations within the Historic San Jose Japantown Community to help preserve it’s cultural significance within San Jose, California, and the United States.

Below are a few facts regarding the earthquake in Japan on March 11, 2011, excerpted from Wikipedia.

The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in),^[32][33][34] and generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.^[35]  On 10 March 2015, a Japanese National Police Agency report confirmed 15,894 deaths,^[36] 6,152 injured,^[37] and 2,562 people missing^[38] across twenty prefectures, as well as 228,863 people living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation.^[39] A 10 February 2014 agency report listed 127,290 buildings totally collapsed, with a further 272,788 buildings “half collapsed”, and another 747,989 buildings partially damaged.

The tsunami caused nuclear accidents, primarily the level 7 meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex, and the associated evacuation zones affecting hundreds of thousands of residents.