Ayase Haruka who plays the role of Niijima Yae in the NHK Taiga drama "Yae no Sakura" and Nishijima Hidetoshi who plays Yae's brother Yamamoto Kakuma, attended the tree-planting ceremony held at a park in Fukushima Prefecture's Shirakawa City on 20 April. The tree which is a new species of the Yaezakura developed by Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute's Tama Forest Science Garden and named "Haruka" after Ayase, was planted with the hope of Fukushima's recovery from the nuclear, earthquake and tsunami crisis which hit the area in 2011. About 500 members of the public including tourists came to attend the ceremony where Ayase and Nishijima placed soil onto a 1.5m-tall sapling. Ayase commented that she hoped that the sakura tree would grow well and stand tall for a long time while Nishijima said that he wished that as the tree grows taller, restoration efforts in Fukushima would also progress smoothly at the same time.
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