The massive earthquake off Indonesia's Sumatra Island and subsequent tsunamis that hit South and Southeast Asia on Sunday have left untold numbers of dead in devastated beach resorts and coastal communities in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

To help the survivors, some embassies in Japan and international organizations have set up relief funds to accept donations through banks or post offices.

Royal Thai Embassy

Name of bank: UFJ Bank Tokyo Eigyobu

Account name: Bangkok Bank Tokyo Shiten

Account number: 610618

Account type: Toza

(Input the registration number 113005 before the name of the donor.)

* Embassy of Sri Lanka

Name of bank: Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi Hiroo branch

Account name: Embassy of Sri Lanka, Tokyo

Account number: 047 0825611

Account type: Toza

(Donors are recommended to send names, addresses and amounts remitted to the embassy, which will issue an official receipt together with a letter of acknowledgment signed by the ambassador.)

* Japanese Red Cross Society

Places to donate: Post offices

Account name: Japanese Red Cross Society

Account number: 00110-2-5606

(Donors should write "Sumatra-to Oki Jishin Kyuen" in the comment space on the postal transfer slip.)

* Japan Committee for UNICEF

Places to donate: Post offices

Account name: Zaidan Hojin Nihon Unicef Kyokai

Account number: 00110-5-79500

(Donors should write "Sumatra" in the comment space.)

Those who want to send money via the Internet should visit its Web site at: www2.unicef.or.jp/bof/bo.html

* Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (a nonprofit organization)

Places to donate: Post offices

Account name: Nanmin wo Tasukeru Kai

Account number: 00110-6-96509

(Donors should write "Indonesia Jishin" in the comment space.)