SHENYANG, China--A fund has been established in Dalian to aid the family, the company and others related to a Japanese executive who saved the lives of 20 Chinese trainees before he was swept away by a tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake.
SHENYANG, China--A fund has been established in Dalian to aid the family, the company and others related to a Japanese executive who saved the lives of 20 Chinese trainees before he was swept away by a tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Uichiro Niwa, Japanese ambassador to China, said he was informed of the fund by Xia Deren, party secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Dalian Committee, on April 26.
The fund was established in memory of Mitsuru Sato, the 55-year-old executive of Sato Suisan Co., a seafood processing company in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, who went missing after evacuating the trainees originally from Dalian, to higher ground.
Chinese media heavily reported the incident.
Xia said it was "a proof of Japan-China friendship."
Meanwhile, Niwa informed Xia about a plan to present letters of appreciation to all adoptive parents of Japanese who were left behind in China at the end of World War II and still live there.
"Although long overdue, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks," Niwa said.
According to the Japanese Embassy in China, about 40 of the war-displaced Japanese are living in China. In cases where the adoptive parents are dead, the Japanese government will give the letters to the Japanese or their relatives, Niwa said.