I recently had a private birthday party at my friend’s new bar in Kokubunji, The Lighthouse, located in West Tokyo (Kayou Kokubunji Green Heights, 2-15-6 Minami Machi, kokubunji-shi 050-1361-4797). We added a slight change to the formula and added 100 yen donation for every food item in addition to every drink purchased as well as collecting donations. We raised 21,000 yen (210 books!) for Room To Read. Who’s next?

Gary, I met you at Tokyo Grand Biere if you remember! I am DH of Good Beer and Country Boys, www.jibeer.com. I just found your site and linked you from ours. I used the logo, hope you don't mind. Also I'm willing to host an event in Aichi! Let me know what I need to do to get the ball rolling!

IUJ's kick-off B4B earned us 63 100yen coins! We invited our graduating class right after a 1.5 hour long graduation orienation to catch a good group on their way back to the dorms. The Global Concerns Forum, a student group associated with our Graduate School of International Relations were the hosts. Thanks to Gary, we could show off the books we were helping to purchase, and students from those countries enjoyed reading the stories a they sipped a cold one. One student from Finland got to read one story from Thailand in English too!
Our audience is so diverse and FROM the countries we are trying to help, that we did have one mistkae. Some thought they had to donate a book from their own children's collection in order to get a beer. We will fix that next time, and hope to get a lot more going! We had fun. Great campus initiative which we hope to promote world wide using our Alumni Network!