At Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, where many students and teachers lost their lives in the tsunami that followed the Great East Japan Earthquake, work was carried out to protect the deteriorating murals painted by children.
At Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, 84 people, including students and teachers, died in the tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake 11 years ago.
It has been preserved as it is without any repairs, but since it has deteriorated, some of the bereaved families have requested that it be repaired. On the 9th, work was done to protect it.
Before the earthquake, the paintings painted by the graduates on the wall of the stage next to the school building had faded and the concrete was peeling off. The person in charge was carefully applying a transparent coating agent.
Goki Tomehata, president of the painting company that carried out the work, said, "If the deterioration progresses further, I feel sorry for the children who died. I would like to cooperate with what I can."
Kazutaka Sato, who lost his third son when he was in the sixth grade at the time, said, "Since we left the site as a place to pass on the lessons of the earthquake, I want it to be repaired in a way that will maintain the status quo for more than a few decades. I think I've stepped forward," he said.