
Mr. Yoshiomi Tamai, President of Ashinaga, Mrs. Catharine Bond Hill, President of Vassar University and Mr. John Caird, a British stage director and writer of plays, musicals and operas met at Brasenose College in Oxford on April 18. They all signed a joint statement after having agreed to hold a series of joint performances which will feature singing, dancing and drumming starting in March 2014.

One year has already passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami hit the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011.