At an elementary school in Yokohama City, students graduating this spring will receive a "digital graduation album."

The children's facial expressions and class scenes are captured in videos instead of photographs.

Children who were greatly affected by the new coronavirus in their school lives.

What kind of thoughts did you put into the album?

(The video is 4 minutes and 47 seconds. It cannot be seen in data broadcasting)

On the 13th of this month, at Kawawahigashi Elementary School in Yokohama City, sixth-grade students were filming a video to be included in a digital graduation album.

I've been working on the album since January.

On this day, one by one, each student talked to the camera about their dreams for the future and their memories of school life.

"I'm going to draw a picture of Soki-sensei now, I love Soki-sensei!"

said sixth-year student Kiria Irie, expressing her feelings for her teacher who encouraged her when the lodging experience she was looking forward to was no longer due to the new coronavirus.

For the past three years, Irie and her colleagues have been forced to live at school during the Corona disaster.

Gatherings with friends during school lunch disappeared, and the concerts where everyone practiced were drastically reduced.

"There were so many situations where we couldn't do it because of the coronavirus pandemic, so there were a lot of sad places.

The digital graduation album was planned by a long-established album maker that has been around for 70 years.

In a questionnaire conducted by this manufacturer to high school students about their graduation albums, many of them said, "I am worried because of all the photos of masks" and "Events will be canceled one after another, and there will be fewer photos of school life."

I started working on a digital version of my graduation album because I wanted it to be a memorable album by making it into a video.

So far, orders have been received from 13 schools, including high schools and universities.

Graduation day.

On this day, I will say goodbye to my friends who I have spent six years with.

Ms. Irie says that filming the video for her graduation album together was also an unforgettable memory.

"I almost cried when I thought about what it was like when I shot it, but the fact that I still have an album of videos is a great treasure for me.