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Story of the principal

Think in summer
2012-09-05
 In the first-year summer, I attended at a school camping trip, but participated in a school camping trip again this year. I was not much with students last year. I did not climb the mountain together either. I climb the mountain with students and think that there was many it at time to spend together this year.
  Instead of saying that I forgot own age, it was the school camping trip that knew that oneself was a year all too well. It was made the serious manner of students and a calm way of speaking think in the scene where it was various when, as is expected, it was the student of the star in dawn.
  It was over, and I put it all day long, and a new (until the third year) Catholic principal workshop was performed in Tokyo and participated in it. It was the training of 2 days and 1 night, but the contents had a very thick thing. It was two days when I changed that I said how it was the principal who did not deserve to be you and was made to feel when oneself was really incomplete.
  And night on the day before on August 6 that is the 67th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima when it is important for Hiroshima. I kept it in peaceful prayer mass in a peacefully commemorative temple of Confucius in Noboricho. Believer and large number of Catholic priests, bishops from the whole country including Hiroshima participated, and solemn mass was held.
  I come to Hiroshima from Tokyo, and nearly 19 years expire. However, I think that I was not able to understand the fear of the atom bomb, fear of the radioactivity enough deeply even if I visit Peace Park many times, and only anything reads a book of the atom bomb throwing down of Nagasaki, Hiroshima to hear a being bombed experience only for anything.
  When I worked as a vice-director in a kindergarten of Hiroshima, there were wonderful and an opportunity to tell even if it was calm and a smile took it in the people equal to the grandmother of children. While I talked several times, I became really close and was the person whom summer and winter greetings were not missed even if I was transferred to Onomichi.
  I heard the voice that I learned by hearing when I heard it while there being no it, and doing other work even if I came to Onomichi and heard "the atom bomb experience-based testimony" on the day of the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that how many times was. When I am reseated to a chair in a hurry and watch TV, the children said to be a grandmother is that "testimony" was done.
  It was that it was bombed at a place of several kilos from the explosion point of the atom bomb. It was something like miracle that oneself survived, and the remaining family thought that I sensed it bodily how a massacre was performed for the first time when I heard that I was testified when the bone seemed to evaporate all instantly. I realized that there were more people who died than the person who survived.
  The chest ached from many people having lost previous life by power instantly. It was never said that oneself was an A-bomb victim and was the moment that I knew when there was the experience of the pains that were hard to say in experience of the which I always smiled at calmly.
  It is fifth grader two people for three sixth graders for Yonekawa of Minamisanriku of Miyagi until from 15 to 17 on July before going for a school camping trip. The sister poured it into it, too and went for a volunteer in six people in total. I was able to leave concerning work only on Saturday.
  When when I ran pitch-black night on the Shinkansen alone to Sendai Station and arrived, a charge account already changed on a day. I had you tell me a various story while having you pick me up on the car of the person of the staff of the Sendai-shi government office which went together early on the next day, and driving nearly four hours.
  I strongly felt that there was surely there human life on seeing pulling grass first, and the toy of a sweater and the child having come out from soil when I performed the putting in order of the house strolled around when then I cleared up the debris. A person died there, and the thing which a house merely disappeared as for the feeling that I saw, and only a base seemed to remain realized that all was lost.
  When it was the summer vacation of the really splendid experience, I am looking back now.
 
Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi
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