“Individuals and organizations from the U.S. have given $746.1 million to support Japan’s recovery from its ‘triple disaster,’ an exchange organization announced on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis that struck the coastline of the Tohoku region March 11, 2011.
JCIE surveyed more than 1,300 organizations to come up with the figure, which constitutes the fifth largest outpouring of support from the U.S. for any tragedy, foreign or domestic. It’s just behind the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010 for quantity of American donations sent abroad, according to the University of Indiana’s Center on Philanthropy.”
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