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Monday October 30, 10:49 AMElementary, junior high schools in ex-Yamakoshi reopened(Kyodo) _ The reconstruction of an elementary and junior high school building in former Yamakoshi village, Niigata Prefecture, which was hit by a deadly earthquake two years ago, has been completed, allowing students to return Monday.The new three-story building was constructed on the grounds of Yamakoshi Junior High School to provide classrooms also to elementary school students. After the Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake destroyed their schoolhouses in October 2004, the elementary and junior high school students roomed at other schools in the city of Nagaoka, which absorbed the village after the quake. The pupils and students arrived at the new school at around 8 a.m., with some taking a school bus from temporary housing about 30 kilometers away. Kohei Kabasawa, 14, a second-year junior high school student, said happily, "We are with elementary pupils from now on. I'd like to get along with them." The number of students at the elementary and junior high schools in Yamakoshi has fallen to 110 from 120 since the quake, which killed 67 people. |
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