TOKYO, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) — A statue of Sun Yat-sen created by famend sculptor Wu Weishan, who can be the curator of the National Art Museum of China, was erected on Sunday on the former residence of Keiichiro Yasukawa in Kitakyushu City in Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Fukuoka.
Yasukawa, founding father of Yaskawa Electric Corporation and the Meiji College of Technology (present Kyushu Institute of Technology), had supplied monetary assist to Sun’s revolutionary actions in his early years. In 1913, Sun visited Yasukawa’s home throughout a visit to Kitakyushu City and offered a calligraphy “World Peace” as a present.
Noting that this yr marks the forty fifth anniversary of the signing of the China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Lyu Guijun, consul basic of China in Fukuoka, mentioned on the ceremony that Sun’s “revisit” to this place after 110 years and his everlasting presence right here will assist promote the understanding of the historical past of pleasant exchanges between China and Japan, in addition to the Chinese artwork within the Japanese society.
Reviewing the story of Japanese folks supporting Sun’s revolutionary actions is of nice significance to selling exchanges between Fukuoka Prefecture and Kitakyushu City with China, solidifying the assumption in China-Japan friendship, facilitating the implementation of the necessary consensus reached by the leaders of the 2 nations, and constructing China-Japan relations within the new period, Lyu mentioned.
Mayor of Kitakyushu Kazuhisa Takeuchi mentioned Director Wu is from China’s Jiangsu Province, which has been in a prefecture-province friendship relationship with Fukuoka Prefecture for greater than 30 years, including that the completion of the statue of Sun marks the pleasant exchanges between the 2 locations.