Countdown board at the elementary school where the torch is scheduled to arrive Miyagi Higashi Matsushima February 20 13:43
It is one month before the Tokyo Olympics torch arrives in Japan. A countdown board has been installed at a local elementary school in Higashimatsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture, where the first torch arrives in the stricken area of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
In Higashi-Matsushima City, where the JASDF Matsushima Base arrives on the 20th of next month, all 11 elementary and junior high schools in the city will have a 1-meter-long, 70-cm-wide countdown board indicating the number of days until arrival. It has been.
Of these, at Omagari Elementary School, which is about 2 km from the base and has 269 children in all schools, a board is installed near the entrance where the shoe boxes are lined, and each morning, the children take turns writing the remaining days.
One month ago, on the 20th, two sixth graders wrote "29".
A female child said, "I feel excited that the torch is arriving one day a day, and I'm excited."
The boy also said, "I'm looking forward to it because I think it's only once in my life. We all want to meet the torch."
According to the Organizing Committee, approximately 200 elementary school students from Higashi-Matsushima, Ishinomaki, and Onagawa-cho, each of which is near the Matsushima base in the affected area, will participate in the torch arrival ceremony on the 20th of next month. .