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Softbank president donates his salary for life!
Today let’s study something in the news. I heard about this on TV this morning and quickly found this article:

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20110403-00000030-maip-soci

Let’s break down the article line by line and word by word. Mind you we’ll only study the first paragraph. I got stuff to do!
東日本大震災 ソフトバンク孫氏 個人で義援金１００億円
Higashi Nihon Dai Shinsai Sofutobank Son shi Kojin de gienkin 100 oku en
ソフトバンクは３日、孫正義社長（５３）が
Sofutobank wa mikka, Son Masayoshi shachō (53) ga
東日本大震災の被災者への義援・支援金として、
HigashiNihonDaiShinsai no hisaisha he no gien shienkin toshite,
個人で１００億円を寄付すると発表した。
kojin de 100okuen wo kifusuru to happyō shita.
またソフトバンク代表としての役員報酬
Mata Sofutobank daihyōtoshite no yakuin hōshū
（０９年度実績は約１億８００万円）も、
(09 nen do jisseki wa yaku 1 oku 800 man en) mo,
引退するまでの分全額を寄付する。
intaisurumade no bun zengaku wo kifusuru.
このほか、ソフトバンクグループも
Konohoka, Sofutobank Guruupu mo
企業として１０億円を寄付するという。
kigyou toshite 10 oku en wo kifusurutoiu.
義援金は日本赤十字社や
Gienkin wa nihon sekijūjisha ya
共同募金会を通じた
kyōdōbokinkai wo tsuujita
寄付のほか、ＮＰＯ支援、震災遺児支援
kifuno hoka, NPO shien, shinzai ijishien
などに充てると説明している。
nado ni ateru to setsumeishiteiru.
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Vocabulary:
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東日本大震災/Higashi Nihon Dai Shinsai=(There is no general consensus on how to translate this in English yet but I’ll say) The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake
ソフトバンク/Sofutobank=Softbank =Japanese cellphone company (monopooluy on iphones)
孫氏/Son shi= Mr. Son (Masayoshi Son is the president of Softbank)
個人/Kojin=personally, privately
で/de=by
義援金/gienkin=relief money, money donation
億円/okuen=100,000,000
は/wa=topic or subject marker
三日/mikka=3 days
孫正義/Son Masayoshi=Masayoshi Son (President of Softbank)
社長/shachō=president, boss
が/ga=topic or subject marker
の/no=indicates possessive, like ’s
被災者/hisaisha=disaster victim
へ/he=indicates direction of action or movement
義援/gien=donation, aid
支援金/shienkin=aid in the form of money
として/toshite=through, by, as
寄付する/kifusuru=donate
発表した/happyōshita=announced (発表する/happyōsuru=announce)
また/mata=in addition
代表/daihyō=representative
役員報酬/yakuin hōshū=executive’s salary
年度/nendo=year, fiscal year
実績/ jisseki=actual results, achievements
約/yaku=about
万/man=10,000
円/en=yen
も/mo=also
引退する/intaisuru=retirement
まで/made=until
分/bun=part
全額/zengaku=full amount
を/wo=indicates the object the verb acts on
このほか/konohoka=in addition
グループ/guruup=group
企業/kigyou=company, business, corporation
という/toiu=this ends a sentence, sometimes it is not translated. Other times it like “said”.
日本赤十字社/ sekijūjisha=The Japanese Red Cross
や/ya=and
共同募金会/ kyōdōbokinkai=meeting for a community chest (perhaps a fund for the community?)
共同/kyōdō=common, communal, co-operation
募金/bokin=fund collection
会/kai=meeting
通じた/tsūjita=by, through
NPO=non-profit organization
震災/shinsai=earthquake
遺児支/iji=orphan
など/nado=etcetera
充てる/ateru=to set aside, to allocate to assign
と/to=used to indicated st said, spoken or written
説明/setsumei=explanation
〜している/〜shiteiru=〜ing

Apparently he donated: ￥100,800,000=About US$120 million

Here is another link to more on this!

Softbank’s Son Pledges $120 Million and Salary for Quake Relief

http://tinyurl.com/3u8bfq5

OK, so Google supports this site:

http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html

But I see on The Colbert Report that you can donate money in the USA this way:

Someone on YT sent me this:

http://www.vloggerheads.com/profiles/blogs/japan-links-to-help-if-youre

I wonder if it’s useful to have so many charities in the world.

I also wonder about selling things to raise money. I mean I support some people like Ken Tanaka who raised over $400 selling art and t-shirts! (Good job, Ken!)

http://youtube.com/helpmefindparents

But I guess some people need a reason or an incentive to donate so we have campaigns like this
An great way to donante money to Japan
iPhone Gamers donate to the Japanese Relief by buying these Sega & Capcom Games

Here are the games that if you buy all the money goes to Japan relief fund

Sonic Spinball

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sonic-spinball/id386379635?mt=8

Sonic the Hedgehog

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sonic-the-hedgehog/id316025912?mt=8

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sonic-the-hedgehog-2/id347411942?mt=8

Sonic The Hedgehog 4

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sonic-the-hedgehog-4-episode-i/id392788790?mt=8

STREET FIGHTER IV

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/street-fighter-iv/id354655665?mt=8

Sega
::FROM NOW THROUGH 3/20, 100% OF SEGA’S PROCEEDS FROM SONIC THE HEDGEHOG iOS TITLES WILL BE DONATED TO THE RED CROSS DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS IN JAPAN::

Capcom
CAPCOM as a Japanese gaming company, starting from Mar. 15th through Mar. 22nd we are going to drop the price of iPhone / iPod touch “Street Fighter IV” globally and donate all the sales to public charity.
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Got this email from a guy in Germany.
Hi Victor!
First of all, as i said before in a comment, as all the other of your fans i’m glad to hear that you’ve relatively safe.
I’d have a link for people in germany to donate money. the organisation is the CARITAS which is a christian help organisation raising funds to send help.

http://www.caritas-international.de/77569.html

since the whole page is in german and until now i didn’t find the english language version i just translated the text on this page, so you might read it and afterwards decide wether you put the link online or not.

“March, 11th, 2011. The flood after the strong earthquake has caused massive destructions in northeast of japan.
Caritas international provides 50.000Euro for instant help.
In an update on the situation sent to the international
Caritas network a few hours after the catastrophe, the director of Caritas Japan reports more than 10 aftershocks after the first quake. The biggest damage however was caused by the tsunami at the northeastcoast.

At the moment the situation remains very unclear. Because of the breakdown of the communications with the most concerned prefecture, Miyagi, the ability to contact Caritas Japan is very limited.

The epicentre of the initial earthquake was about 130km away from the japanese island of ojika. Caused by the massive quake, tsunami warnings for the whole pacific area were made and in Indonesia, the Phillipines and mand other regions alarm was triggered.

Caritas international is asking everyone to donate for the victims of this tsunami. With the donated money we want to start supporting instant help measures made by the japanese Caritas.
donate online with the “JETZT SPENDEN” butoon or via bank transfer using the keyword “Tsunami”:”
I hope you stay safe and all this will be over asap
All of gemany’s best wishes and prayers are with japan
greetings
Dennis

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And then there’s, of course, Micaela’s brainchild:

http://youtube.com/partners4japan

On March 11th at about 2:45pm I was talking on Skype to Ken Tanaka when the building started shaking. I was not too concerned but yelled EARTHQUAKE a few times to Ken and grabbed Maggie and ran down 10 flights of stairs. Made this video then.

So I’ve just spent an hour trying to find out who the best organization or charity to donate to is. I keep hearing that Red Cross is not a good organization because a majority of the money you send ends up in management or advertising and does not get to the people who need it.

Made this video to compliment a teaching post Yukari made on Maggiesensei.com.

The Maggiesensei Lesson on GYARU talk is here.

Well, I don’t know if you’ll impress women, but I was duly impressed when one of my favorite Youtubers

http://youtube.com/sugartalker

took a video of one of my other favorite Youtubers

http://youtube.com/drewnetwork

and made this fun fun video!

How to impress a woman by Sugartalker (with Drewnetwork)