Good evening to all of our many SWS and SRS fans.
This is the ZOUKEI-MURA SWS/SRS Development Team.
Spring draws ever nearer, and here in Kyoto today what they keep saying is the final snow of the year flitters occasionally down from the sky. How are you all doing today?
We here in the ZOUKEI-MURA SWS/SRS Development Team have felt so encouraged by the warm messages we have received from all of you around the world, and we fully intend to work our utmost every single day so that we may return to normal operations as soon as possible, and once again be able to provide you all with the highest level of service and smiles.
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[ Sympathy for the Tohoku - Pacific Ocean Earthquake Tragedy ]We would like to express our most heartfelt sympathy to all of you who have been victims of this tragedy.
When you think of natural disasters, it's still almost impossible to believe that something like this would actually happen. When I try to imagine what the victims of this tragedy might be feeling, I can't even begin to find words.
I truly hope that you will be able to find and grasp on tight to your endurance, to keep your health in mind, and that all too soon the revival of your former life may begin.
In addition, although it is but a meager thing, our company intends to work with all our might to arrange well-wishes and donation contributions, and move without delay to expand the support network.
Hideyuki Shigeta
All Staff
VOLKS GROUP
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[ What We Can Do 'Now' ]What exactly can we do right now, following in our company policy of ¡Èdelivering happiness via the hobby world¡É, to realize the most immediate recovery from such an unprecedented disaster?
I believe that we should plan and implement various charity projects, via the products and services that we work wholeheartedly to deliver every day.
Our first step in that was to request ¡ÈTohoku - Pacific Ocean Earthquake Donations¡É at the Home Town Kyoto Dolpa 8 event that we held recently, and we received an outpouring of warm supporting from so many, many attendees.
We are truly grateful to all of you for your support.
Thank you so very much, from the bottom of our hearts.
VOLKS GROUP matched the donation, adding an equal amount to the total of the donations that we received from everyone, and the following total was donated to the Japanese Red Cross Society.
* HT Dolpa Kyoto 8 Donations: 896,692yen
* VOLKS Donation: 903,308yen
We are planning more charity projects from here on in the same way, by which we can deliver the sort of courage, smiles and happiness you expect from the ZOUKEI-MURA SWS/SRS Development Team at every forthcoming VOLKS event. We hope that you will look forward to these, and we would be most grateful to continue to receive your warm support.
We are also currently accepting donations at all of our VOLKS stores.
And all of our VOLKS stores are working hard so that they may resume normal operations as soon as possible.
The ZOUKEI-MURA SWS/SRS Development Team, together with all of VOLKS GROUP, will continue to work hard to deliver many kinds of happiness to all of you.
We sincerely hope and pray for everyone's health, well-being and quick recovery.
From all of the ZOUKEI-MURA SWS/SRS Development Team
Hello to all of our many SWS and SRS fans.
This is the ZOUKEI-MURA SWS/SRS Development Team.
Today, there was a large earthquake that affected the whole of Japan.
Are all of you safe?
Right now, we here at the ZOUKEI-MURA/VOLKS Head Office are in the process of confirming the safety of all our related locations and staff.
We recently were able to confirm things, and information can be found below.For information about current and future operating hours, please check the top page of the VOLKS Website.
* Check here for the operations of our stores ¢ª Click!In addition, information regarding the doll events scheduled to be held tomorrow and the day after can be found via the Doll Design Dept. blog. (Note: Japanese only)

The aftershocks of the quake still continue in many places.
We sincerely hope for the continued safety of everyone concerned.
From all of the ZOUKEI-MURA SWS/SRS Team

Did you notice that you recently got a new ordering option if you¡Çre a US, Canada or Mexico resident? Now you can pre-order Shinden from Volks USA, too!
We usually offer mainly the Dollfie lines, but we expect all scale model fans to join us from now on! We¡Çve already received several orders, thank you so much!
Also, Volks USA will work on translating Zoukei-mura¡Çs super funny and interesting blog into English! Sometimes it¡Çs difficult to properly express the blog entries in English, but they¡Çre worth giving our best effort!
We hope you enjoy the blog – and of course, we¡Çre enjoying it, too!
Finally, you¡Çre more than welcome to email us comments regarding
Shinden and the Zoukei-mura blog at
service@volksusa.com any time!