“In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates.” (found via /r/videos)

“This rise of outward expression of emotion is mirrored by the introduction of a poetic form that took root in Japanese culture hundreds of years ago; haiku. The similarities between haiku and Twitter are uncanny: concise structure, minimalistic emotional approach, and limited character count.”

Update 3/11 11:58am

RELIEF EFFORT LINKS HERE: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Japan-Relief-Efforts-Underway-117806818.html

Update 3/11 3:38am pst

Japan declares ‘nuclear emergency’ as attempts to cool reactor at northern plant are ‘not going as planned’ - official via NHK

http://twitter.com/BreakingNews/statuses/46165953683263489

INFO FOR LA COUNTY:

http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/041.html#SPE

Update 3/11 1:37am pst

INFO FOR BAY AREA:

Obvious, but stay AWAY from water/beach/low-coastal areas. The first wave is supposed to hit San Francisco around 8:08-8:16am.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014462269_apcajapanearthquakewestcoast1stld.html

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov /2011/03/11/lhvpd9/04/mess agelhvpd9-04.htm

Bay Area TV tsunami warning @ 1:15am pst

http://i.imgur.com/fbdia.jpg

Tsunami travel times:

http://twitpic.com/48dweu

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Update 3/11 12:51am pst

http://www.facebook.com/JapanEarthquakeTsunami

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CNN coverage: http://tinyurl.com/4cozhlc

Found via reddit: http://tinyurl.com/4nku44n

Also, Hawaii and other Pacific locations under tsunami watch: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/03/no-tsumani-warning-for-california-coast-but-officials-say-they-are-still-assessing-risk-from-88-japa.html