Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2012, 227(2)

Letter to the Editor

A Simple Stock of Optical Glasses for a Catastrophic Disaster: Eyewear Donations after the 2011 Pacific Coast Tohoku Earthquake

YUJI TANAKA,^1,2 AYAKO YAMATO,¹ NAOKO YAJI¹ and MASAYUKI YAMATO¹

¹Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
²Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

keywords —— catastrophic disaster; donation; ophthalmology; optical glasses; the Tohoku earthquake

© 2012 Tohoku University Medical Press

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Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2012, 227, 93-95

Correspondence: Masayuki Yamato, Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan.

e-mail: myamato@abmes.twmu.ac.jp