Japanese groups with links to people in areas affected by Monday's earthquake have expressed concern for their friends.
As of Tuesday, Piece of Syria, an Osaka-based nonprofit organization that supports a school giving supplementary education to Syrian refugee children in Gaziantep, southern Turkey, could not confirm information on the safety of about 250 children. The children are 6 to 15 and had attended the school.
"We just hope the children are safe," said Takayuki Nakano, representative director of the NPO. "We want to start providing support to affected children and their families as soon as possible."
