Thanks for the thoughts and prayers, everyone. I finally got to bed just after 3am last night, but it was a quiet night -- or at least aftershocks didn't wake me... Kofu can be a very windy city and we had some wicked gusts throughout the night... Gusts that shake the house at least as much as some aftershocks, so if there were any they were covered up by the wind...

Canuck: Japan is most certainly accepting international aid, as they have teams from many different countries up north and on the ground, including the US, Mexico, China, Sourth Korea... http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?se...les&id=8015279