On the 5th of May the Acting Consul-General of Japan, Mr Yasufumi Kotake was invited to the Australian Ballet School to receive a donation from the school’s staff and students. Mr Kotake delivered a speech in which he expressed his heartfelt thanks for the generous donation, and spoke of the correlation between the era of progress in Japan and the history of the Australian Ballet School.
Mr Kotake also relayed some of the accounts of the current situation in the areas affected by the recent earthquake, and elaborated on some specific episodes of overseas support which Japan has received.
