Museum featuring Sun Yat-sen, Japanese supporter opens in Nagasaki

Museum featuring Sun Yat-sen, Japanese supporter opens in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Ayano Kosaka, a great granddaughter of Shokichi Umeya who supported the 1911 Chinese Revolution's spiritual leader Sun Yat-sen, speaks at a ceremony to open a museum exhibiting items related to the friendship between the two men, in the Japanese southwestern city of Nagasaki on April 26, 2014. The museum showcases exchanges between Shokichi Umeya (1868-1934), a Nagasaki businessman, and Sun (1866-1925) as well as historical background.

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