Charities have moved quickly to establish mobile donation campaigns to help the victims of the earthquake and ensuing tsunami that devastated Japan early Friday morning.

FORBES: How To Donate Money By Cellphone To Japan Quake Victims

Led by the auto and heavy machinery sectors, Japan begins to stand back on its feet after the devastation caused by an earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11.

FORBES: Japan Industrial Production Skyrockets As Global Supply Chain Comes Back On-Line

Apart from nuclear power plants, the Japanese utility has shut down thermal plants in the Tohoku and Kanto areas, also afflicted by the intensity of the massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami.

FORBES: Japan Will Struggle To Meet Electricity Demand

Markets have seen bouts of volatility driven by political uprisings in the Middle East and Northern Africa, the earthquake and ensuing nuclear crisis in Japan, and ongoing sovereign debt issues in Europe.

FORBES: 5% Upside For Equities Despite 'Austerity Fatigue' Hitting Global Markets

An earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Japan early in the year rocked the nuclear community after the Fukushima Daiichi plant, operated by Tepco, suffered substantial damage to various reactors and some partial meltdowns, with radiation leakage.

FORBES: Cameco Sinks As Sales Drop Post-Fukushima

Companies that escaped damage from the earthquake and ensuing tsunamihave to cope with rolling power outages and disruptions to supplies of water, raw materials and transportation, suggesting the road to reconstruction could be long and halting.

WSJ: Firms in Japan Assess Quake Damage

Shunned by investors on Monday on fears that the nuclear crisis going on in Japan, as reactors explode and melt down after the horrendous earthquake and ensuing tsunami damaged cooling capacities, stocks from uranium miners to generator designers to plant builders have topped the charts for biggest losers.

FORBES: Uranium And Nuclear Stocks Feel The Shock Waves Of Fukushima Meltdown

Battered by an earthquake, a massive tsunami, and an ensuing nuclear crisis as authorities struggle to control the fallout at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, Japan has become a possible headache for producers as it is an important part of the global supply chain.

FORBES: Ford Outsells GM In March For The Second Time Since '98