Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association relief news update from Japan.
On October 8, Typhoon Melor tore through western and northern Japan, displacing some 40,000 people while taking two lives and injuring 118 others. Some buildings were heavily damaged as power lines were destroyed, roofs torn off and trees uprooted. The most extensive damage was reported in central Japan’s Aichi Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture of Honshū island, which was also struck by a tornado born of the original typhoon.

On October 8, Supreme Master Ching Hai quickly conveyed much sympathy and her prayers to the Japanese victims. She also requested that our native Association members please go to see if they could help in any way to offer comfort, simple necessities and love, saying that funds would be available accordingly.

As Supreme Master Ching Hai frequently requests updates, the following is a report from our Japanese Association members via Foreign Group.


VOICE: We are thankful to Supreme Master Ching Hai for allowing us to inform our global viewers of these details, and to our Association’s Foreign Group for providing this report.

VOICE: Our appreciation, Japanese government for your careful preparations that have helped protect the disaster-hit regions. We are also grateful for the attentive support of Supreme Master Ching Hai to those in need, as well as our Association members’ dutiful aid to the afflicted.

Wishing the Japanese people a swift recuperation of their day-to-day lives and that such disasters are alleviated through our adoption of more eco-conscious ways.