Japanese spirit hailed
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IPOH: The Japanese people's graceful way of facing up to their most recent adversity has won the praises of Raja Muda of Perak Raja Dr Nazrin Shah.
Raja Nazrin said their patience and perseverance in enduring the hardship brought on by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami was admirable and inspiring. He said the world was now looking east once again but, this time, it was not at Japan's development and technological expertise but at the heart and soul of her people.
"They have displayed the fortitude, the composure, the dignity and the generosity that have so defined their culture," he said at the handing over of donations to the NSTP-Media Prima Disaster Fund here yesterday.
Raja Nazrin said the world had seen how the Japanese people in the affected areas did not hesitate to help others even though their own homes were destroyed and their belongings washed away.
"Able-bodied men and women carried supplies to victims and gave up their own food rations to feed families with children and elderly members. Although there were 500,000 evacuees, there was no rushing, no rioting and no clamouring for food, water and fuel.
"The calmness of those waiting in kilometre-long lines to receive good, water and fuel defied the temper and fury of the quake that shook the ground. Their warmth towards each other defied the freezing weather they had to endure."
Also present were Raja Puan Besar Perak Tuanku Zara Salim, Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir, The New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd chairman Tan Sri Mohamed Jawhar Hassan and Consul-General of Japan Tetsuro Kai, who represented the Japanese ambassador.
Raja Nazrin later handed RM687,000 donated by various parties to Jawhar on behalf of the fund.
The donors included the Perak government (RM100,000), Sultan Azlan Foundation (RM100,000), Sunway City Bhd (RM100,000) and Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd (RM100,000), while Umno Perak contributed RM50,000, Perak Turf Club (RM50,000) and a personal donation of RM50,000 from TSH Resources Bhd chairman Datuk Kelvin Tan Aik Pen.
Other donors comprised companies, non-governmental organisations, political parties, government agencies and Ipoh International School.
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