President Aquino traveled by bullet train and car for more than three hours to get to this northeastern city from Tokyo and personally hand over the Philippines’ $1-million donation for the reconstruction of the local city hall destroyed by earthquake and tsunami last March.
The President, members of his delegation, and media had to take the bullet train for one hour and 41 minutes and travel another hour and 30 minutes by car to get here and the Kadonowaki district, which were damaged by the tsunami along with Ayukawa district.
Mayor Hiroshi Kameyama welcomed the President and received the Philippine government’s donation along with other local officials in their temporary offices in a local mall.
Aquino was the first head of state to have gone to Ishinomaki since most of those who came earlier to express their solidarity with this country went to Sendai City.
The President offered a wreath in front of the Kadonowaki Elementary School where many students perished during the earthquake and tsunami. The mayor accompanied Aquino and briefed him about the disaster.
It is in this city where traces of the devastation are still evident unlike in Sendai City, which has apparently recovered.
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