Production of the Tokyo Olympics and Para Reconstruction Monument A high school student in Fukushima tours January 29 20:56
On Tuesday, high school students from Fukushima Prefecture visited the Tokyo University of the Arts, where monuments are being created to show the world the reconstruction of the stricken areas of the Great East Japan Earthquake at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
The monument being produced at Tokyo University of the Arts will be made of aluminum building materials of temporary housing that has completed its role in the stricken area of the Great East Japan Earthquake, and will be displayed at facilities related to the Tokyo Games.
On the 29th, 11 students from the art department at Fukushima Prefectural Reimei Azumi High School visited a university workshop to observe the production.
At the monument, a plate that high school students in the disaster area wrote thank you for support and a message to cheer for players will be attached, and the high school students who visited will melt the material made from building materials and pour it into the mold. We observed the state of "casting" to harden.
A little over an hour after the start of the work, plates with the words “Resurrection” and “Revive! 2020” were completed, and the high school students were smiling.
Natsumi Ohto, a second-year student at Reimei Azumi High School, said, "I want to convey the message that many people have helped through this monument and that they want them to visit the affected areas with interest."
Tsukushi Oka, a third-year student at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music who designed this monument, said, "I want to create a monument that will make everyone in the stricken area smile and help them to recover."
The monument is a two-meter-high, abstract-shaped body, attached to the messages of high school students from three prefectures in Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate. We will appeal the reconstruction of the stricken area to the world.