Rugby World Cup game in Kamaishi Both teams silently mourn the victims of the earthquake September 25, 16:28
In the Rugby World Cup Japan tournament, the Fukushima-Uruguay game was held on the 25th in Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture, in the stricken area of the Great East Japan Earthquake, and players contested before the start and mourned the people who died in the earthquake. Did.
The “Kamaishi Kashiwa Housing Reconstruction Stadium” was the only one of the 12 game venues in the Japanese Games, and was set up on the site of a Kashiwa Housing Elementary School that was completely destroyed by the tsunami of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
On the 25th, a Fiji vs Uruguay match was held, and elementary and junior high school students in the city entered the pre-match ceremony and raised a big flag in English that expressed their appreciation for their support for reconstruction.
After that, players from both teams entered and lined up in the middle of the pitch, and in memory of those who died in the earthquake and disaster for about 20 seconds.
At the stadium, the national team's match was held in July as a World Cup test match, but there was no silence from the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake, and local people were wondering.
For this reason, Iwate Prefecture and Kamaishi City sought to conduct silence, and the Organizing Committee of the tournament decided to do silence before the two games in Kamaishi.