You wouldn’t know it from looking out your window here in Boston but spring is supposed to start tomorrow. And so the Cloudant team once again spends a lazy March Sunday, shut indoors, hoping for milder spells.

But it’s already Monday in Japan and it seems like the tech community there has had a busy weekend.

In an effort spearheaded by the local branches of Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Microsoft and many others, more than 200 developers have been sharing ideas, teaming up and designing apps that will help speed up Japan’s recovery after the disastrous earthquake, tsunami, nuclear scare and 632+ aftershocks they have been experiencing since Friday, March 11.

The endeavor is dubbed Hack For Japan and while the English language details are still sparse (see the idea poll or the ongoing Twitter stream), we immediately knew we wanted to help out in whatever way we could.

The Japanese CouchDB community is 150+ strong, has organized several “relaxons”, is writing an impressive community translation of “CouchDB: the Definitive Guide” and has a very active leader in Yohei Sasaki. Cloudant in particular, has enjoyed some traction in Japan for a while and we set up a cluster dedicated to serving that community last year.

Today, we’re moved by the resilience, kindness and positive outlook of the Japanese tech community. So we’re announcing we’re donating our spare Asia-Pacific cluster capacity to any Hack For Japan project that may need it. It should be enough for several hundred Argon or a few Krypton accounts. The details are here.

That’s just our way of saying thanks to the Japanese community, for always having our back, for keeping the lost, the injured & the stranded in their hearts, and for showing that you can always count on your fellow geeks to unite, build & help rebuild.

After all, it’s already the season of love, life & new hopes, over there.