How Freemasonry in Japan Benefits Others

We donate money to charities and organizations worldwide, asking for nothing in return.   We support dozens of charities in Japan, and specifically we organize festivals for orphans, children with special needs and the handicapped.  We collect and distribute clothes to the homeless.  A list of our major recipients is as follows:

                         Kyoto Eye Bank                           International Ladies' Benevolent Society
                         Seeing Eye Dogs                          Kunitachi City Handicap Athletic Meet
                         The Toy Library                           Tokyo Communuity Counselling Service
                         Inochi no Denwa                          Japan Women's Temoerance Union
                         Nihon Social Welfare College         Refugees International Japan
                         Nihon Tenji Toshokan                   Maryknoll Alcohol Center
                         Kobe Boys Town                          Pearl S Buck Foundation
                         Salvation Army                            Christian Children's Fund

and other disaster relief drives, this is not a complete list as Lodges also support charities of their own choice.

In 1999 we donated over ￥100,000,000 to these and other worthy causes.

We also help our own; Lodges regularly give to help a Brother in need or the widow of a Brother, for example, in 2001 a classical concert was held with the proceeds going to help a Brother's widow who was in dire need.

But there is more to Masonry that just giving away money.

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