A memorial service was held on the 8th, 27 days before the sixth anniversary of the accident in Nasu Town, Tochigi Prefecture, in which eight people were killed when high school students were caught in an avalanche during mountaineering training.
In March 29, at Mt. Chausu in Nasu Town, Tochigi Prefecture, the mountain club of the high school was gathering to train for mountain climbing when an avalanche was caught in an avalanche, killing eight people, seven students and one teacher from the prefectural Ohtawara High School, and injuring many students.
On the 3th, 7 days before the sixth anniversary of the accident, a memorial service was held in front of the cenotaph at Otawara High School, attended by 1 people, including bereaved families and prefectural officials.
In front of the cenotaph, a new plaque engraved with the names of eight people was installed at the request of the bereaved families, and after each person's name was read aloud, the attendees mourned in silence.
Aiko, the mother of Yuho Kezuka (then 29), a teacher at Ohtawara High School, said, "It's been six years since I couldn't see my precious sons, but when I wake up every morning, I despair at the reality of not having a son, and there is not a day that goes by without tears for six years."
Regarding this accident, a court ruling is scheduled for June in which some of the bereaved families are seeking compensation from Tochigi Prefecture and other prefectures, and the trial of three teachers who led the accident is ongoing, with a home-based indictment for manslaughter in the course of work.
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Mr. Okukatsu, who lost his eldest son, Koki, who was in his first year of high school at the time, in the avalanche accident, said, "Unfortunately, the weather today seemed to remind me of the day of the accident, and I was depressed from Kesa. I was talking.