Actually, Prayers aren't performed strictly by useless people, anyone can pray for Japan's safety, they still care about Japan in some sort of way... Just let people deal with the situation the way they wish to do so...
Am I the only one that noticed that praying tends to be very religious and it kind of draws people away from donating at all? I experienced that while trying to get donations >.<
It is understandable for the prayer to be performed because Japan is a religious country, but how many people around the world can honestly say they know what religion is most dominate in Japan?
Probably not as many as we would like to think.
Useless people pray for Japan, caring people donate to Japan.
Caring people will donate to Japan, but it's no use to call people useless because some are unable to do so. You could have picked a better choice of words.