Great East Japan Earthquake Tsunami Damaged Okawa Elementary School Storyteller Activity Resumed Miyagi Ishinomaki October 25, 21:33
At Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, where many children were killed in the tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, the storyteller activities of the bereaved family, which had been suspended due to the effects of the new coronavirus, resumed on the 25th.
At Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, a total of 84 children and faculty members were killed in the tsunami caused by the earthquake, and construction work is currently underway to maintain it as the remains of the earthquake.
The storyteller activities carried out by some of the bereaved families in the school building were postponed at the end of January due to the influence of the new coronavirus, but resumed on the 25th, and both were in sixth grade on the 25th. Two people, Toshiro Sato and Noriyuki Suzuki, who lost their second daughter, acted as storytellers.
Of these, Mr. Sato spoke to the visitors while showing photos of the athletic meet before the earthquake, saying, "It has been more than nine years since the disaster, and although it has become difficult to understand, I think about my daily life until" that day. " Let me know. Disasters occur when it's not special, "he called for preparations for disasters on a daily basis.
A woman in her twenties from Sendai said, "I learned to think about the past, the time of the earthquake, and the future. It was difficult to visit with the new coronavirus, but I'm glad that you restarted it." I was talking.
After the activity, Mr. Sato said, "Since an unspecified number of people will come, I would like to continue holding the event while paying attention to infection prevention."