Two top musicians from Japan and South Korea are poised to help bring people from the two countries a step closer together when they play a concert later this month in tribute to a South Korean student and a Japanese photographer killed while trying to save a man who fell onto the tracks at a Tokyo railway station.
Yoichiro Omachi, key conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and Tokyo-based South Korean violinist Jung Chanwoo, say people should not forget the brave actions of Lee Su Hyon, 26, and Yokohama photographer Shiro Sekine, 47, or the overwhelming reaction in both countries following their tragic deaths in January.
The concert will be held April 15 at Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo's Sumida Ward.