The Maiko Highschool, and department of environmental disaster prevention, compiled a booklet of earthquake disaster experience

2004/09/24  

 
 

 

Kobe Shinbun NEWS Japanese

The "textbook" with which experience and teachings of every person were got blocked was able to be done. 

Students of prefectural Maiko high school of the department of environmental disaster prevention which summarized earthquake disaster experience towards graduation Taking advantage of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, 39 third graders of the department of Hyogo prefectural Maiko high school (Tarumi-ku, Kobe-shi) environmental disaster prevention established newly for the first time in the whole country summarized earthquake disaster experience in the booklet. 

The title of the experience collection which the student who was still a second grader in an elementary school spelled those days is "handing down from generation to generation." Fear of an earthquake, sadness which lost the blood relation -- Although the locus connected "soon" is different, respectively, the common wish of "wanting to tell teachings" is put. (Mariko Miyamoto) 

A term student who turns into the first graduate tackled as graduation research, and made it complete over about three months. A diary of those days etc. is quoted and for the first time in [ a life ], the life immediately after an earthquake disaster, the situation of a town, a mental state of those days, etc. are reproduced. It became the great work which amounts to 159 pages by 39 man-minutes. 

Ms. Miyuki Nagao (17) by whom it was hit by Nagata-ku, Kobe-shi became a victim only in this municipal west citizen hospital of a hospitalization place in the mother who just talked by telephone on the previous day. The talk of the rescue team member which carried out rescue activities in this hospital was heard by the lesson of the department. When " "the one person passed away though it was regrettable in the hospital" was heard, a front could not be turned to by thought of being hard, and thought of being mortifying, but the bottom was turned to." 

Ms.Sugita kanae (17) which encountered the earthquake disaster in Takarazuka-shi lost the grandmother. It became the underlay of the second floor and the thought by the grandmother found near stairs was described. "When the occurrence of an earthquake was late for a while the back, a grandmother goes up to the second floor, and possibly was saved. There are some persons saved at the critical moment, and there is a person who passed away in slight difference. What was this difference? I do not understand. --"

Mr.Hatsutawara Nanae(18) looked back upon the moment of the earthquake experienced in Tarumi-ku, Kobe-shi, saying, "It was fearful, was fearful, was fearful, and did not come out of the bed." "What we should leave to the next generation is not a number (damage scale) but teachings" And these collection of works were expressed as "the textbook with which experience and teachings of every person were got blocked." 

This is the first time that the student who has learned about a calamity or disaster prevention summarized experience in the text. The Seiji Suwa teacher (44) of the department is saying, "I want to continue as a measure which fills the hole of the generation who hands down an earthquake disaster from generation to generation." - Special edition "the Great Hanshin Earthquake"

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