Nagasaki Sasebo 16 years after classmate murder Meeting to think about the importance of life June 1, 18:20

It took 16 days in a day from the murder of a 6th grade girl at the elementary school in Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture. A meeting was held at the elementary school to think about the importance of life.

At Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo City, on June 1, 2004, a female student who was in the 6th grade at that time died after being cut by a classmate with a cutter knife.

At the elementary school, we continued to meet every year from the year after the incident to convey the importance of life to the children, and about 180 children from the whole school participated on one day.

At the meeting, Masami Sato called out, "Do not give up on people with arbitrary thoughts and emotions. Please keep it in mind even if you grow up," and all of them offered silence.

Then, in the words of the determination for each grade, the 5th grader said, "We will work together and make a class that values ​​life."

This year, in order to prevent the infection of the new coronavirus, we shortened the gathering of 45 minutes to 25 minutes every year, opened the seats, and saw the gathering of the gymnasium on the classroom TV for the 1st and 2nd graders. Measures such as doing have been taken.

Masami Sato said, "I think the best way to prevent a recurrence is to keep the whole society in focus on the children."