{"id":21170,"date":"2011-04-12T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T19:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=21170"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:56:49","slug":"shop-to-help-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/21170\/shop-to-help-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop Right: 5 Local Artists and Designers Help Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. <\/strong>Monkey Bar Soaps of Sunnyside crafts all natural, 100% safe, vegan, and wonderfully fragrant soaps and bath products. Monkey Bar makes earth conscious cleansers and has concocted the Nisshoki Bath Bomb. Meaning \u201crising sun\u201d in Japanese, the $4 Nisshoki is modeled after the Japanese flag and will clean and moisturize your skin while you soak away your stress. All proceeds from Nisshoki Bath Bombs will go directly to <a title=\"Doctors Without Borders\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doctors Without Borders<\/a>.\u00a0<!--more--><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21183  alignright lazyload\" title=\"Clam Lab Mixed NEsting bowls\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Clam-Lab-Mixed-NEsting-bowls-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Clam Lab Mixed NEsting bowls\" width=\"236\" height=\"153\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21183  alignright lazyload\" title=\"Clam Lab Mixed NEsting bowls\" src=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Clam-Lab-Mixed-NEsting-bowls-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Clam Lab Mixed NEsting bowls\" width=\"236\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Clam-Lab-Mixed-NEsting-bowls-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Clam-Lab-Mixed-NEsting-bowls.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/noscript>2. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clamlab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clam Lab<\/a> of Brooklyn offers hand constructed ceramic tableware for people who love to cook, eat, and entertain. Clam Lab brings a simple elegance to their take on the pottery arts. They have created a set of four white stoneware and porcelain Nesting Bowls that can be used for prep, mixing, and serving. The proceeds will be donated to UNICEF&#8217;s efforts for Japan&#8217;s Earthquake Relief.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. <\/strong>I Like You As A Friend Jewelry has been crafting unique charming treasures for a few years in our fair city. They bring a thoughtful creativity and refreshing spin on necklaces, rings, and the like. For the Japan relief efforts, they have created a custom piece to raise money for the Red Cross. They have designed a hand carved and cast sterling silver Ginkgo Leaf, which is a Japanese symbol of longevity, heartiness and hope. The gingko tree can live for thousands of years, and seven million- yea-old fossils of their leaves have been found. They have been known to survive all sorts of disasters, including the atomic bomb. A mere $20 will satisfy your style for a good cause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. <\/strong><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21184  alignleft lazyload\" title=\"oktak\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/oktak-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"oktak\" width=\"204\" height=\"164\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21184  alignleft lazyload\" title=\"oktak\" src=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/oktak-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"oktak\" width=\"204\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/oktak-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/oktak.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/noscript><\/strong>Oktak offers a large array of bags and pouches from local Japanese-born designer Aki Takada. Oktak\u2019s style will add a dash of cute and colorful panache to your accessorizing. Many of her items can be ordered with personalized features like your name or initials. Takada is donating 20% of her sales on all products to the Japanese relief efforts of the American Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterzine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afterzine<\/a> is a bi-annual arts and culture journal, curated by Hamish Robertson, comprising a collection of invited works upon dictated themes. The theme for their debut issue is negative space. Contributors include Peter Saville, Alexa Chung, Thurston Moore, and many others. Afterzine will donate $5 of every copy sold <a title=\"Afterzine journal\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/afterzinejp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> to the Red Cross Japan Relief efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Monkey Bar Soaps of Sunnyside crafts all natural, 100% safe, vegan, and wonderfully fragrant soaps and bath products. Monkey Bar makes earth conscious cleansers and has concocted the Nisshoki Bath Bomb. Meaning \u201crising sun\u201d in Japanese, the $4 Nisshoki is modeled after the Japanese flag and will clean and moisturize your skin while you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":21181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,315,326],"tags":[40,359,627,626,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-21170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","8":"category-day-trips","9":"category-queens-outer-boroughs-destination","10":"tag-art","11":"tag-charity","12":"tag-jewelry","13":"tag-pottery","14":"tag-shopping"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":21181,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/5614175302_a21043b024-300x261.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}