The Philippines sent messages of thanks Saturday to Japan and other nations for their assistance after the nation was heavily damaged by super Typhoon Haiyan last November.
Under the initiative of the Philippine Department of Tourism, the disaster-hit Southeast Asian country displayed thank you messages on electronic billboards in Tokyo and eight other cities including New York and Paris at the exact time the typhoon struck the country at 4:40 a.m. local time, the Tokyo-based Philippine tourism officials said.
In Tokyo, messages thanking people for their support were displayed in Japanese on two tarp banners and on screens of the Qfront building just in front of the "scramble crossing" in the popular Shibuya shopping district.