Jon, our photographer based in Japan, who many of you have been concerned about, thanks everyone for their well wishes. He asked me to post the following.
"Thanks to everyone for their concern. Family and friends all safe and accounted for. Northern Japan needs your help and donations more than prayers right now."
To further prove that he is, in fact, alive and well, he's recently done an interview with Heso Magazine in Japan, which is linked below.
"Jon Ellis is one of those people whom you never expect to meet. But there he is. At the end of the table sipping his Guinness with a polite smile on his face. He wears dark clothing and knows way more about goth music than you ever will..." (click here to read the rest of the interview)