The Last Day: A Tribute to the World

The Last Day: A Tribute to the World was a benefit concert created by the heads of the Japan Consortium. Genji Nishioka from Tokyo (who survived the North Korean nuclear attacks on his hometown during the first day of the Last Day) was selected by them to produce and run the show. Actor James Dawson organized celebrities to perform and to staff the telephone bank.

It was broadcast live by the Japan Consortium and all of the available cable networks from many worlds in the aftermath of the Last Day. Done in the style of a telethon, it featured a number of national and international entertainers performing to raise money for the victims, the survivors and their families, particularly the firefighters, the armed forces, the police officers, the nuclear energy workers and many other types of authority figures from around the world. It aired December 21, 2038, uninterrupted and commercial-free, for which it won a Peabody Award. It was released on January 4, 2039, on compact disc and DVD.

On a dark stage illuminated by hundreds of candles, artists from different worlds performed songs of mourning and hope (including those that relate peace and nuclear disarmament), while various actors and other celebrities (including the very last hibakushas of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the descendants of the victims and survivors of the atomic bombings of the two respective cities, the descendants of Boeing B-29 Superfortress crews that are involved of the atomic bombings, residents of Safe Havens, survivors living in Release Bands, and even soldiers currently fighting in post-Last Day conflicts such as the Great P365 War) delivered short spoken messages. The musical performances took place at three studios in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while the celebrity messages took place in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and many other Safe Havens. Some of the musicians, including David Marson and Kyle Wakeman, were heard working the phone banks taking pledges. Over $200 billion was raised and given to the World Bank's Last Day Telethon Fund.

In 2042, Rolling Stone magazine selected this concert, along with The Concert for the Last Day, as one of the 50 moments that changed rock and roll.

The show was also simulcast in many worlds that aren't affected by World War III; Young and another Canadian singer, Samantha Davison, also performed while working as one of the show's co-hosts.

Long after the Stitchpunk Talisman's awesome power is being used from the deceased souls of World War III, the Last Day and its following conflicts to cause a rainstorm that contains flecks of bacteria which could restore all life in all Last Day-affected worlds and kill off all radiation so that many survivors and Safe Haven residents can get the right time to rebuild their civilization, this one is being broadcasted annually.