In 2023, Aid For Japan announced that after their 12-year anniversary event and a final outing at Doki Doki Japanese Festival in Manchester, the charity would close. To mark the decision, we have created a special Memorial Page for the … Read More
Our final outing as a charity coincided with the final Doki Doki Manchester Japanese Festival this year. The charity and the festival have grown up together, and so coming to a close together was a bittersweet feeling. Incredibly, over the … Read More
We are very proud to present the Japanese independent film 『有り、触れた、未来』Ari Fureta Mirai or Eternal New Mornings (English title) directed by Toru Yamamoto this summer at Doki Doki Japanese Festival in Manchester. The film is about the importance of community … Read More
Twelve years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and the charity held its final anniversary event to mark the occasion on 11th March 2023 at the London Metropolitan Archives. It was warming to see familiar faces there, like … Read More
Over the festive holiday season in December 2022, the super-cute Japanese retail store KENJI ran a raffle and prize draw to fundraise for our charity. The raffle included soft toy plushie giveaways and the lucky winners received a copy of … Read More
To wish the orphans and their carers a Merry Christmas we sent them British biscuits in the shape of Scottie dogs. We also wrote them Christmas cards in both English and Japanese wishing them well for the New Year. This … Read More
In Summer 2022 the charity team welcomed Maria-chan from Japan to the UK. We even managed to fit in a dream trip to Disneyland Paris! Maria-chan’s primary reason for visiting England was to take part in a Vidal Sassoon Academy … Read More
The return of Doki Doki Festival to Manchester after the pandemic hiatus proved hugely successful. The Japanese themed stalls were bustling with pundits and there was food, music, cosplay and more, all related to Japanese culture. As with previous years … Read More
The Tōhoku based artist asari has shared her latest creation with us at Aid For Japan. The song is quite appropriately called ‘Share’ and contains all the hope, sadness and anxieties of someone who survived the Great East Japan Earthquake … Read More
In Japan there is the tradition of cherry blossom viewing called hanami 花見. Where people gather beneath ample cherry blossom trees to appreciate the flowers’ fleeting beauty. In April 2022 Aid For Japan hosted such an event at Greenwich Park. … Read More