JAL plane cheers on Olympic athletes with fuselage message

JAL plane cheers on Olympic athletes with fuselage message

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a Boeing 777-200 aircraft of Japan Airlines Co., displaying the message ''Gambare Nippon!'' (Go Japan!) and a picture of gymnast Kohei Uchimura, a gold-medal hopeful, as it departs from Haneda airport in Tokyo for Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 27, 2012, as JAL inaugurated the aircraft to cheer on Japanese athletes participating in the London 2012 Olympics in the summer.

Rio Taiko performers encourage Japan

Rio Taiko performers encourage Japan

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Members of the Rio Nikkei Taiko perform Japanese ''taiko'' drums with the famous Sugarloaf Mountain in the background, at the ''Gambare Japan (Carry on Japan)'' event in Rio de Janeiro, on April 17, 2011. Taiko drummers gathered in at least 24 cities in Brazil the same day for a simultaneous performance, to wish for the recovery of devastated areas in Japan following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

JAL plane cheers on Olympic athletes with fuselage message

JAL plane cheers on Olympic athletes with fuselage message

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a Boeing 777-200 aircraft of Japan Airlines Co., displaying the message ''Gambare Nippon!'' (Go Japan!) and a picture of gymnast Kohei Uchimura, a gold-medal hopeful, as it departs from Haneda airport in Tokyo for Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 27, 2012, as JAL inaugurated the aircraft to cheer on Japanese athletes participating in the London 2012 Olympics in the summer. (Kyodo)

Rio Taiko performers encourage Japan

Rio Taiko performers encourage Japan

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Members of the Rio Nikkei Taiko perform Japanese ''taiko'' drums with the famous Sugarloaf Mountain in the background, at the ''Gambare Japan (Carry on Japan)'' event in Rio de Janeiro, on April 17, 2011. Taiko drummers gathered in at least 24 cities in Brazil the same day for a simultaneous performance, to wish for the recovery of devastated areas in Japan following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

Japan firms organize donations in U.S. for quake-hit homeland

Japan firms organize donations in U.S. for quake-hit homeland

AUSTIN, United States - Akihisa Fujita (C), director and executive vice president at Dentsu Digital Holdings Inc., affixes a ''Gambare: Save Japan at SXSW'' sticker on the badge of an attendee who donated at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas on March 15, 2011. The group raised $5,000 in the first three days of the festival, which ends March 20. (Kyodo)