Seriously Ayu donated is nice! & she did t-shirt because she knows that foreign people want to help too.
She's really so nice.
this TV is Really Stupid!!!

This is ridicilous. One of the towns in Southern Serbia donated $10 000 to the Red Cross of Japan, here that's a lot of money, compared to those 7 000 000 yen it prolly doesn't seem that much, but it will still help someone. Imagine how will less known people who don't have such "deep" pockets feel when they want to donate only a couple of hundreds or thousands of dollars after seeing people being judged this way. Any help should be more than welcome and everyone should donate as much as they can or think it's appropriate, as this indeed isn't a race.

And until there are actual facts and numbers on the donations everything's mare speculation. I think Ayu was right not to announce the exact numbers and the Korean guy announcing it only means that he wants more publicity.

Stupid, silly, sad.

They don't even have their numbers right.

-ignore-

Baffles me how a crisis like this can be happening, and there's still time and space to talk about how much people are donating and comparing?
Hmmph.

i don't think anyway it's right to judge the generosity of charity donations.
A donation is a donation.

precisely. I duno what the Japanese are thinking. They should be worrying about more earthquakes, radiation exposure and their future lives instead of complaining that ayu donated a small sum of money -_-

.

It's unfair to judge someone like that, even if they have a lot of money. There are more rich people than just Ayu and the majority of them probably wont even donate.It was good of her to contribute.
I feel like im just repeating what has already been said xD but just wanted to throw my 2cents in.

Actually according to Time magazine they estimate her fortune to be around 400 million USD.
So the girl can afford to do a lot more, but im not judging (by the way, i dont know how much Namie makes). I think donation are personal and no one so be saying anything of how much she donated.

If she donated a 1.00 they should just shut up and be thankful she did that. She doesnt have to donate anything, she doesnt have to produce a shirt with all the proceeds to go to charity and she doesnt have to do a concert, if it happens.

Donating +1mil USD is a lot, even for someone really rich like Ayu... Being rich doesn't mean she produces money from her ass or that she has an infinite quantity of it...

+1.

That's terrible. It doesn't matter how much ppl donate, it's the heart that counts.

oh my -.-

How cool would that be if she could do that?! Lol.

SERIOUSLY, HAVE ANYONE THOUGHT OF THIS??:

Even if you earned so much money in a year, it doesn't mean you spend less money and save a lot of money.

Please take a look at Ayu's livestyle, it's obvious she spends a lot, not only for herself and also for her lovely pets and perhaps aother things that we are not aware of. True, her pay might not be constant monthly, but that doesn't mean she doesn't spend any money at all.. Come on, so what if people look rich, earn loads of money and all that, it might be an empty shell inside.. so what's the upset about?? and it is also common that most japanese don't save money...

Besides, does donating more money be only 100% beneficial to the victims? i don't think so, it is already so inaccessible to travel over to where the victims are, let alone provding them with the basic needs. So what, when you have loads of necessity and food but you are unable to distribute to the victims asap??

this whole thread has lowered my IQ

I'm surprised that.. they had time to have such a TV programme? :roflmao

I agree with Kagami,no matter how much she gives, if there are others who are donating, comparisons are gonna be inevitable.

Anyway, if she's doing a little or a lot for her people, that's a thought that only concerns to her, nobody else. The world is gonna spin round and round, no matter what.

Wow that tv station is pathetic

Annoying. But I don't let it bother me because I know ayu has done so much and I know she has donated a lot to her homeland.

A donation means giving something, not necessarily money. A lot of her twitters were information and advice. It just shows how materialistic some people are! How much did their newspaper donate? (Pro-rata, what percentage of their budget?)