2026 Kumamoto Earthquake
Disaster Relief Fund

As of September 7, 2026, 09:50 JST / 35 people have supported us so far
(last updated: September 7, 2026)

"Donations received" is the amount actually received into the fund. Credit card donations are received net of the processor's 3.6% fee (this fee is included in the incidental-cost figure above).

• September 7, 2026 Donations received have passed ¥500,000.
  
  Thank you to the 35 people who have supported us so far.
  
  The amount received, the amount passed on, and the amount not yet used will continue to be published on this page, as they have been. After we close on October 31, whatever remains will be given in full.
• August 31, 2026 We donated five mid-size drones to Yamazaru Co., Ltd.
  
  This did not come out of the donations entrusted to us. They were provided by Glocal Act Co., Ltd., an affiliated company of ours. The figures under “Fund status” on this page are therefore unchanged. We are not disclosing the cost.
  
  Yamazaru continues to tarp the roofs of damaged houses in Matsubase and Shiranui, Uki City, free of charge. In a post on August 19, the company described working on steeply pitched roofs where “there was a risk of secondary harm from aftershocks.”
  
  We handed the drones over because we believed they were needed for roof repair work.
  
  Yamazaru Co., Ltd. (in Japanese)
• August 27, 2026 We sent ¥50,000 to Yamazaru Co., Ltd.
  
  Yamazaru is a landscaping and specialist tree-felling company based in Kumamoto City. Since July 28, the day of the earthquake, it has been working in Matsubase and Shiranui in Uki City — tarping damaged roofs, removing collapsed block walls and stone walls, clearing debris, carrying out household belongings, and making temporary repairs to household water pipes.
  
  All of it is free of charge. The company does not charge for tarpaulins or sandbags either, and writes that this is made possible by support from people across the country. It gives priority to older residents, people with disabilities, and single-parent households, and puts up notices in community halls — with the local district head’s permission — so that people who do not use social media can reach them too.
  
  A tarpaulin on a damaged roof only helps if it is up before the next rain. We are entrusting what we hold to people who take on that urgent part without charging for it.
  
  The ¥100 bank transfer fee for this remittance is recorded under administrative costs. These now total ¥929 (0.20% of donations received).
  
  Yamazaru Co., Ltd. (in Japanese) / Instagram / Facebook
• August 27, 2026 We sent ¥50,000 to Disaster NGO Yui.
  
  Yui sent an advance team the night the earthquake struck on July 28, and announced its Kumamoto response on August 3. Uki City and Hikawa Town recorded shindo 7; Yatsushiro City, shindo 6+. To reach all three, Yui set up a base that NPOs can use together. Its people check on those sheltering in their own damaged homes and bring them supplies, clear roads, and retrieve valuables from collapsed houses.
  
  What is carried out of a fallen house is not only belongings. The years that gathered there, and the memories no one wants to let go of, come out with them. We wanted to entrust what we hold to people who carry both, knowing what they are carrying.
  
  The name Yui comes from “yuimaru,” an Okinawan custom of helping one another with work such as farming.
  
  The ¥100 bank transfer fee for this remittance is recorded under administrative costs. These now total ¥829 (0.18% of donations received).
  
  Disaster NGO Yui (in Japanese) / Facebook / X / Instagram
• August 18, 2026 We sent ¥40,000 to Kumamoto Rosai Hospital, run by the Japan Organization of Occupational Health and Safety.
  
  The hospital, in Takehara-machi, Yatsushiro City, is a core regional hospital and a designated disaster base hospital. It states that its buildings and equipment were badly damaged in the earthquake, and that it has continued to serve as a hub for the area — receiving DMAT teams and supporting local clinics, evacuation centers and facilities for older people.
  
  The money goes toward repairing buildings and facilities damaged by the earthquake, and restoring or replacing medical equipment.
  
  The longer people stay in evacuation, the more of them fall ill. If the side that receives them cannot hold, the weight returns to the whole area. That is where we decided to send part of what we hold.
  
  The ¥73 bank transfer fee for this remittance is recorded under administrative costs. These now total ¥333 (0.08% of donations received).
  
  We asked for, and were given, the hospital’s consent to name it here when we applied.
  
  Kumamoto Rosai Hospital — Appeal for donations (in Japanese)
• August 17, 2026 Donations received have passed ¥400,000.
  
  Thank you to the 21 people who have supported us so far.
  
  The amount received, the amount passed on, and the amount not yet used will continue to be published on this page, as they have been. After we close on October 31, whatever remains will be given in full.
• August 14, 2026 We have opened a bank account dedicated solely to disaster relief.
  
  Until now the fund sat in our general corporate account, alongside our operating money. With a dedicated account, what you entrust to us no longer mixes with anything else — the statement shows only money in and out for relief.
  
  Donations already made to the previous account are all included in the figures on this page. They will be moved to the new account and reported on exactly the same basis.
  
  The account is an interest-bearing ordinary deposit. Any interest it earns will also go toward relief in the affected area.
  
  Donations from outside Japan are still best made by card, using the button above.
• August 14, 2026 We sent ¥64,271 to Kumamoto Yogo Kyogikai, an association of children’s homes in Kumamoto Prefecture.
  
  Yatsushiro Nazare-en, a children’s home in Yatsushiro City, has opened its showers to local residents around the clock while the water outage continues. Homes across the prefecture are pooling relief supplies and sending staff to keep that going.
  
  As the figures above show, four of the six shelters in Kagami and Sencho still have no running water. Going without a bath wears on people a little more with each passing day. Having somewhere nearby to sit in hot water reaches more than the body.
  
  The funds go toward relief supplies, water and gas bills, and travel costs for the staff sent to help.
  
  We learned of this work through an article by Koumei Douen, a social welfare corporation (in Japanese).
  
  The ¥130 bank transfer fee for this remittance is recorded under incidental costs, bringing the running total to ¥260 (0.06% of donations received).
• August 13, 2026 The fund entrusted to us has passed ¥400,000. Thank you to everyone who has contributed.
  
  Here is what we are hearing about the situation on the ground, from relatives and friends there.
  
  Central Yatsushiro City is said to be recovering. The damage in Kagami and Sencho, however, remains severe, and the gap between districts is widening. This matches the figures above, as of August 12: roughly one in six of everyone still evacuated in the city is in these two districts, and five of their six shelters still have no running water.
  
  We also hear that disaster volunteers who went into Hikawa Town are preparing to deploy to this area. People are finally starting to move toward that last stretch where help has not yet reached.
  
  Half a month has passed since the earthquake — the point at which exhaustion tends to set in. What is needed changes by the day. We will keep providing support in whatever form fits the place and the moment.
• August 12, 2026 We sent a monitor to Yatsushiro Radio (ヤツシロラジヲ), an internet radio station in Yatsushiro City.
  
  The station broadcasts under the motto “telling Yatsushiro as it is now.” Alongside tourism, local events, and culture, it also carries disaster-prevention information. Since the earthquake, it has been broadcasting around the clock through the end of August, reporting on how relief is unfolding across the city.
  
  We learned that their monitor had been damaged in the earthquake and left unrepaired. This is a place where urgent information has to go out urgently. Making it easier for them to concentrate on that work is, we think, one form of support.
  
  There is a last stretch between information and the people who need it. Unless someone covers it, relief does not arrive.
  
  For now the focus is on the disaster. But we hope that, in time, the station will carry more about the region itself — its attractions, its tourism, its economy. Sensing there is something we can contribute to that, we decided on this support.
  
  Yatsushiro Radio from Good-AIR!
  The station covers everything about Yatsushiro City in Kumamoto Prefecture — local events and sightseeing, announcements from the city office, PR from local groups, and news from shops around town. As a community that has lived through both the earthquake and flood damage, it also broadcasts disaster-prevention information.
  
  A companion site lets residents post and check, on a map, where relief supplies are being handed out and where people are asking for help. Volunteers are welcome to use it.
  　→ Yatsushiro Disaster Information Sharing (in Japanese)
  
  Listen to Yatsushiro Radio
  　· On the web (Good-AIR!)
  　· On TuneIn
  　· On Apple Music
• August 12, 2026 We sent ¥67,000 to Save the Children Japan (public interest incorporated association).
  
  The organization held “kodomo hiroba” child-friendly spaces at evacuation centers in Yatsushiro City and at a temple in Hikawa Town. It creates places where children affected by the disaster can spend time safely, and distributes emergency kits for children and school supplies.
  
  What we keep hearing from the ground is that supplies themselves are arriving, but there are not enough people to carry them to those who need them. We judged that entrusting the funds to an organization already working on site is the surest way to reach children right now.
  
  This wording was reviewed and approved by Save the Children Japan before publication. The ¥130 bank transfer fee for this remittance is recorded under incidental costs.
• August 12, 2026 The fund entrusted to us has passed ¥300,000. Thank you to everyone who has contributed.
  
  Here is what we are hearing about conditions on the ground, to the extent it has reached us. Support is spreading from across Japan, and supplies themselves appear to be arriving. What we keep hearing, from more than one source, is that there are not enough people to carry those supplies to those who need them.
  
  There are also moves underway to open more places where children can gather. As soon as the arrangements are settled, we will direct support there. Once it is decided, we will record it here and in the disbursement log.
• August 8, 2026 We have published a crisis map for residents of Kagami and Sencho in Yatsushiro City. It brings together evacuation centers, water distribution points, disaster-waste drop-off sites, and cleanup consultation desks in a single map and list.
  
  Built on advice from people with long experience in disaster response, it was designed around how the information gets updated. It re-reads what Yatsushiro City and the Yatsushiro Living Environment Office Association publish, four times a day (9:00, 12:00, 15:00, 18:00). Every item states when its information was last confirmed. If more than 24 hours pass without an update, a warning appears at the top of the page and directs you to the city's disaster-prevention site.
  
  This is not an official site of Yatsushiro City, and it contains no personal information. For anything decisive, please check the source linked beside each item.
  
  The map is written in Japanese only.
  Open the Yatsushiro City (Kagami / Sencho) crisis map
• August 6, 2026 We purchased relief supplies — materials for repairing a collapsed roof. 1,000 sandbags, 1,000 m of banding to secure tarpaulins, and eyelet fittings, shipped directly to the "Kumamoto 10-Year Testimony Archive Project", which is active on the ground.
  
  We chose materials that will hold for a while rather than a stopgap fix. With a typhoon approaching, covering the roof was urgent.
• August 6, 2026 We made our first donation. As our work centres on children, we sent it to "sonaeru", the disaster child-support programme run by Katariba, a certified NPO. In Yatsushiro City, they are running "Minna no Kodomo Beya", a safe space for children, at Ueyanagi Shimoni Community Hall.
  
  A typhoon is now approaching, and the supplies needed on the ground are very likely to change significantly. We will watch how the situation develops before deciding where to send support next.
• August 5, 2026 Donations are now open. The donation period runs through October 31. For the time being, the fund status on this page will be updated daily.