{"id":2858,"date":"2017-07-28T17:57:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T17:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/japan-week\/?page_id=2858"},"modified":"2018-09-04T07:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T07:34:01","slug":"about-songs-of-hope-soh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/japan-week\/about-exhibitors-performers\/about-songs-of-hope-soh\/","title":{"rendered":"About &#8220;Songs of Hope&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/songsofhope2011\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Songs of Hope<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(SOH) is a Seattle-based musician group which was established in order to support Tohoku (north-eastern Japan) through a benefit concert series after the March 11th triple disaster in 2011.\u00a0\u00a0After five years of support activities, SOH became the mother organization for the community choir Chorus of Hope, the bake sale group Nadeshiko Bakery\u00a0and the study group <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SeattleKarakoso\/\">From Seattle To Fukushima: Helping Mothers in Fukushima through Study and Activities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their musical activities take place throughout the Puget Sound region. \u00a0And now, in addition to concerts, they also receive invitations from schools and various events to do educational presentations introducing Japanese music.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/songsofhope2011\">Facebook: Songs of Hope<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOH supports an NPO in Fukushima, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwakisokuteishitu.com\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mothers\u2019 Radiation Lab Fukushima<\/a>\u00a0(MRLF)\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwakisokuteishitu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u3044\u308f\u304d\u653e\u5c04\u80fd\u5e02\u6c11\u6e2c\u5b9a\u5ba4\u300c\u305f\u3089\u3061\u306d\u300d<\/a>. \u00a0Their mission is to improve the hopeless situations of Fukushima residents created by the nuclear accidents in 2011.\u00a0\u00a0MRLF gives mothers a sense of relief by offering radiation measurement, screening tests and educational information. \u00a0Last June MRLF opened a clinic and started\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.actbeyondtrust.org\/campaign\/pledge\/tarachine\/dock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a fundraising campaign<\/a>\u00a0to provide every child with a free health check-up.<\/p>\n<p>Radiation exposure will continue to affect many lives, especially young ones, and each year it will get worse.\u00a0 Please follow the most recent updates from Fukushima!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songs of Hope\u00a0(SOH) is a Seattle-based musician group which was established in order to support Tohoku (north-eastern Japan) through a benefit concert series after the March 11th triple disaster in 2011.\u00a0\u00a0After five years of support activities, SOH became the mother &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/japan-week\/about-exhibitors-performers\/about-songs-of-hope-soh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":0,"parent":2272,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2858","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/japan-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/japan-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/japan-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/japan-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/japan-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/japan-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6267,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/japan-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2858\/revisions\/6267"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/japan-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/japan-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}