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B’z Official Website now also reports that B’z is participating in Music For Relief by contributing a song to the tracklist: HOME English version.

B’z has also taken the time to say a few words as to why they’re participating:

Our country now faces a crisis we’ve never experienced before. In order to rebuild the beautiful houses in our country, we all have to do something. If playing music can help people in the disaster zone, then that’s what we can do for them right now. And as such, that’s exactly the thing we have do to right now.

-B’z

Find more videos like this on Music For Relief

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Linkin Park’s non-profit organization “Music For Relief” has started to collect donations for earthquake victims in Japan. If you donate only $10, you’ll get access to a growing number of songs available for download. B’z, among others, has contributed a song to the tracklist: The English version of HOME.

If you’d like to donate $10 to the earthquake victims, head over to http://japan.downloadtodonate.org/. You can donate using your credit card or PayPal.

Music for Relief: http://www.musicforrelief.org/main/

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"B'z Office Sends Over 50 Million Yen To Disaster Zone" - Article in the Tokyo Sports Newspaper

B’z management has donated over 50 million Yen(500,000€ / $625,000) to help out people that have lost their homes due to the quake. But that is not all: They are also sending goods such as water into the disaster zone to provide assistance in supplying people with fresh water and food. Taking into account the goods as well as the generous donation, the total value of the donation amounts to more than 100 million Yen.

Being Group – which B’z recording label belongs to – has refused to announce the donation publicly as they do not want it to come off as promotion for the company. The information has been uncovered by an insider who then passed it on to a newspaper, namely Tokyo Sports.

The report states that Being Group has set up emergency headquarters to ensure the safety of their staff and their families.

He also says that Tak Matsumoto has taken interest in doing a collaboration with AKB48 to compose a new song which is different from his current ballads. No plans have been revealed yet, though.

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Today on B’z official website as well as B’z PARTY official website appeared a message from both members about the Great Tohoku Earthquake that hit Japan last Friday.

Now I’m praying for damage to not increase anymore and for more people as possible to be rescued and saved.
Everyone, let’s join forces to overcome this moment, so someday soon we’ll have our bright Japan back!!
– Tak Matsumoto

Seeing the great damages the Earthquake caused, the city where lovely people used to live disrupted, and so many lifes lost, this made my heart cry, and I felt helpless. I think we should be united, with all our might, because this could raise someone else’s hopes.
– Koshi Inaba

Also B’z support member Shane Gaalaas wrote a post in his blog, both in English and Japanese:

Hello Japan,

Sending this picture I took this morning of a little flower that reminded me of you… I hope in some small way you could somehow find some happiness in your life in these tragic times.

Thinking of you and how lucky I am to know what a beautiful nation Japan is.

Love,
Shane

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As you probably know, last friday, 14:46 local time, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit Northern Japan and caused major destruction resulting in the death of at least 1700 people. Right now, Japan is facing another problem as nuclear power plants Fukushima 1 and 2 have been damaged by the aftershocks and tsunamis that hit the coast in Japan and lost cooling function. Hopefully they will be able to resolve the situation as quickly as possible. The last time Japan has experienced a huge earthquake was the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995. If you’d like to know more about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanshin_earthquake

B’z Management has issued a statement that all B’z members are fine and unhurt. (via B’z Official Website as well as B’z PARTY Official Website)

If you would like to get the latest on the crisis in Japan, you can watch Japanese TV live on UStream or watch Yokoso News which is run by a Japanese person who translates the latest news to English.

Here are the links:

NHK World TV (English): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv
NHK (Japanese): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-gtv
TBS (Japanese): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/TBStv
Yokoso News Live: http://www.yokosonews.com/live

Tak Matsumoto News

I was so excited that I was not able to write up a proper article and ended up posting the videos instead. However, this is a huge success for Tak Matsumoto and I think it deserves a good, and thorough article. Also, it is a great opportunity to look back how it all started, and how Tak Matsumoto finally came to receive this outstanding award.

It is a rather lengthy article, so be sure to bring some time with you! 😛 Click read more to see the article!

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