One Year Later in Japan, JDC Focus on Displaced and Children Restores Hope

One year after the powerful tsunami ravaged Japan, a homeless 70-year-old named Shoko is finding community again and young mother Yuriko is able to get her child to sleep through the night because of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's (JDC) efforts on the ground. From community cafés that offers psycho-social care, health services, and community workshops for displaced Japanese, to a post-trauma program using a huggable plush dog named "Hibuki" who helps Japanese children overcome post traumatic stress, more than 130,000 people have been directly helped throughout the hardest-hit prefectures.