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A global appeal for solidarity with stricken Japanese

Japan may be a rich country, but the scale of the disaster it is facing is so monumental that its people need the international community’s help

By The Shared Concern Initiative

Donations to the Northeastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund can also be made online at www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng.

HRH El Hassan bin Talal is chairman of the West Asia-North Africa Forum; the Dalai Lama; Frederik Willem de Klerk is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former South African president; Andre Glucksmann is a philosopher and essayist; Vartan Gregorian is president of the Carnegie Corp; Vaclav Havel is a former Czech president; Hans Kung is president of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Stiftung Weltethos) and professor emeritus of ecumenical theology at the University of Tubingen; Michael Novak is a Roman Catholic theologian; Karel Schwarzenberg is the Czech foreign minister; Desmond Tutu is Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate; Richard von Weizsacker is a former president of the Federal Republic of Germany; Grigory Yavlinsky is chairman of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko. All signatories are members of the Shared Concern Initiative.

Copyright: Project Syndicate

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