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“Kenji Hirakawa of Fukuoka, Japan donated 200,000 yen (around PHP87,000) to the relief efforts in the Philippines, which was battered by Typhoon Yolanda,” reports ABS-CBNnews.com.
Apparently, Hirakawa sent a letter to the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo by post. In it, he expressed his desire to help the Typhoon Yolanda survivors. He was drawn to the Philippines because his father, a member of the Japanese imperial army, was sent to the country during World War II.
Hirakawa was just three months old when his father left. His father never made it back to Japan. “My father lies sleeping in a mountain somewhere in Luzon,” Hirakawa wrote in his letter.
Then, he went on to say, “I am enclosing here 200,000 yen for all the troubles my father may have caused to the Filipino people.”
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