(Excerpt of article: “Moriyama, Japan donates 3,000 masks to Adrian” by Spencer Durham on Lenconnect.com)
Three thousand masks are currently in route to Adrian from Moriyama, Japan, the city’s sister city.
Jim Berryman, current president of the Michigan-Shiga Sister State Board, told The Daily Telegram Monday of the incoming donation. Michigan shares a sister state relationship with Shiga Prefecture, Japan’s version of a state. Moriyama is in Shiga.
The idea was all Kazuhiro Miyamoto’s, mayor of Moriyama, Berryman said.
“It really shows the 31 years of building a friendship,” the former Adrian mayor said. “It really is a strong depth of feeling in Adrian … and Moriyama.”