A French musician played a violin made of tsunami debris at a concert in Tokyo on Thursday.
Gerard Poulet performed with violin at the concert on the occasion of the birth centenary of French composer Claude Debussy.
The violin was made by a Japanese craftsman using pine and maple found among debris of the March 2011 tsunami in Rikuzen-Takata in Japan's Iwate prefecture. Since March this year, a number of domestic and foreign violinists have performed with the instrument.
Poulet told the audience that his thoughts were with the tsunami survivors in Japan's north-eastern region of Tohoku.
The program included a sonata for violin and piano that Debussy is said to have played for wounded soldiers.
People from the disaster-hit areas were invited to the event, and a woman in her 70s from the worst-hit Fukushima prefecture said she felt the healing power of music, Japanese media reported.
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