I'm trying to find a charity such as the Red Cross or similar that will come collect a big donation of clothes and household stuff. It's always been one of those great J-mysteries to me why they are too proud to admit that there are homeless, orphaned, generally destitute people here that can use this stuff.
Then there's the Japanese charities that think they're doing a good deed by dropping off a fucktonne of stuff to us at the Kenyan embassy, but then don't want to pay for us to actually send it to Kenya or realise that we have to pay import duties on it. It's a real headache and just about all the African embassies have the same problem...the 'help' that J-charities offer is really just them wanting to look like they're doing a good deed and not being wasteful. So that is something I have to take into consideration, it's gotta be a charity that is going to collect this stuff for people IN Japan, not try to pawn it off on someone else.
Anyway, if anyone knows of such an agency, please let me know asap. I'd even consider those christian/jehovah's witness/mormon missionary sorts, as long as they use it in Japan.