Prime Minister and LDP President Shinzo Abe and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan viewed a screening of "125 Years Memory (Kainan 1890)." The film follows the "Ertugrul," a warship carrying a mission from Turkey to Japan in 1890 that was shipwrecked off the coast of Kushimoto, Wakayama, and it depicts the extraordinary efforts made by local people to rescue survivors. He praised the movie as a "wonderful film that relates the ties between the two countries."
<November 13 (Friday), Istanbul, Turkey>