Morioka is the capital city of Iwate-ken. Morioka city officials, Iwate University professors, Iwate citizen volunteers and their friends are steering "
Morionette," a local social networking service. Immediately after the quake and the tsunami hit Iwate-ken and Tohoku and Kanto regions, Morionette set up an open community to share various information about the quake, the tsunami, the devastated areas, safety of friends, relatives and acquaintances, evacuation centers, efforts to help victims and refugees, etc.
And it started
a project to collect stationery and send them to children in evacuation centers.