During these activities, many changes took place in our hearts. At first, we thought we understood world peace. Soon after though, we noticed that we did not fully understand the concept. So we continued on with our activity of discussing world peace. Finally, we became aware of how very important it is and that we have to do something.

Our first painting is in regards to our determinedness. It shows our eyes and faces and means “Don’t be indifferent to world peace”. The next painting (“Stop the wars for our future. Work hard for world peace.”), show our strong wills with a big tree and many beautiful flowers. The last section shows our hopes. (“Don’t repeat the terrible wars. Eliminate them all over the world.”)

On the left side of the third mural section, there is a bud on the wasteland. The bud appears on the mine. The mine and the wasteland represent, the symbol of foolish persons, and the bud is a representation of our hopes. In the center, there are two kinds of human beings. One is selfish and the other works for all. On the right hand side, there is a big tree growing on the mine. That tree grows up to the blue sky. This is called “Jirai no ki (The mine tree)” by us. This big tree shows our wishes and the blue sky our future. This tree is us and our message of peace in the world.

By doing these activities we were able to recognize the difference between our personal wishes and the wishes of the group. As we worked our ties as friends strengthened and our egos were set aside. Painting the mural brought us “peace”. This activity also made us take notice of and feel “peace”.

While painting these pictures we were also thinking about how to send our message of peace to the world. We thought about the many ways to express it. We decided to the best way for us to display our message was through drawings, poems, speeches, and songs in our school gym. All the students and teachers, our families, people of Yamanashi, and even Mr. Kaneda from Tokyo came to our assembly. We sincerely delivered our message. Newspapers even commented that it was great. We were very happy and thankful for all the people’s support.

Iikubo Taro Ishikawa Keita Ishikawa Manabu Inoue Makiko
Imazawa Norihito Imazu Seiya Endo Minako Okubo Aya
Okubo Yuya Ookura Kaori Oohara Ayano Oomori Asami
Kato Chie Kawakubo Haruna Gomi Sunao Sano Ryuichi Sano Ryosuke Sekiguchi Kaori
Takizawa Marie Tsuji Momoko Nakazawa Ai Yuki Nakano Nakama Yoshiaki　　Nakamura Shota
Nozawa Azusa Nozawa Tatsuya Noda Saori 　Hiraiwa Kumiko Hosaka Akari Hosaka Toru
Masamoto Kenji Mikami Sayo Mitsukunugi Reina Muramatsu Takuya Mochizuki Taiga Yazaki Yuta
Yonayama Misato Hiroki Akaike Akiyama Asuka Asakawa Izumi　　Adachi Yukari Araki Hisayo
Ariizumi Takeru Ichikawa Yuta　　Inoue Junichi Irikura Azusa
Uchida Atsushi Endo Atsushi Oomori Aya　　Ogawa Hiroka Kasai Yuko Kawasaki Kozue
Komatsu Masami Saito Mariko Sato Takeshi
Sano Shinji Shiozawa Takuya Shiozawa Yasuha 　　Shimura Yuta
Takahashi Yayoi Tanaka Yohei Terada Eri Nakazawa Kimie
Nakamura Momoko Hara kensuke Fukasawa Katsuhito Fukasawa Saki
Fukasawa Misa Fujimaki Kazuaki Hosaka Naokuni Horiuchi Ryo
Muramatsu Kanae Yamaguchi Tomohiro Yoneyama Nobue
Akiyama Daisuke　　Adachi Yui Ariizumi Shiho Iikubo Misato
Iketani Naoya Ishikawa Yuji　　Inoue Chika Ootsuki Ikumi
Oomori Megumi Gomi Mariko Sakurai Kazuki　　Sato Teruaki
Shiozawa Reiji Shimegi Yohei Sugimoto Yuki Takano Keiji
Tsukahara Satomi Tomida Hitomi Nakazawa Yuta Nakajima Akiko
Nakajima Mizue Noda Kenji Higuchi Yuta Hinohara Nanako
Fukasawa Koki　　Fukasawa Hiroshi Fukasawa Yuki Honda Masashi Matsuda Fumiya　　
Mochizuki Atsuko Mochizuki Jun Mochizuki Mina Mochizuki Yoshiki 　Yoda Chiharu
Yoda Mizuho Wakabayashi Rie Aoki Saori Akiyama Hiromi　　Akiyama Mai Asakawa Kumiko
Adachi Kenji Ariizumi Eri Inoue Ayumi　　Inoue Yuta Uchiike Yuki Ootake Shota
Haruka Ogihara 　 Kanemaru Tatsuya　　Kawamura Kazuma Kawamura Yuka Kono Yuri
Saito Aya Sakurabayashi Hiroyoshi Shirakawa Saki Sugimoto Yuta Takei Ryota　　
Chisuwa Kenmei Nakagomi Mie Niitu Kazuki Ninomiya Tsubasa 　　Hara Asuka
Hara Mayumi Fukasawa Koji Fukasawa Satoshi Hosaka Atsushi Muramatsu Tatsuya
Morooka Hitomi Yanai Manami Yamashita Shuhei
Yamanaka Shota Yokota Kayoko Watanabe Aoi Noda Takao
Asakawa Yuki Anayama Yuya Iikubo Mitsuya Igarashi Yuya
Inoue Nana Imazawa Shinji Okikura Hiroki Kagami Kumi Kasai Minami
Kamikawa Ami Kawaguchi Chiho Kunugi Eri Kobayashi Chihiro
Sano Rina Shiozawa Ami Shiozawa Eita Shijyo Risa Shimizu Hiroko Takano Satsuki
Takano Tomoki Takano Mayumi Tada Hiroshi
Tanzawa Takeshi Tanzawa Yui Nakazawa Kikyo Nakazawa Masataka Nakazawa Rie
Higuchi Minami Fukasawa Kaori Fukasawa Hitoshi
Mitsui Kazushi Miyagawa Yuki Muramatsu Kosuke Mochizuki Shun Mochizuki Haruka
Moritani Gento Yokota Yuji
(Kosai J.H.S 3rd students Yamanashi Japan Feb,8th,2003)


〈 Supporters 〉

Imamura Teruhiro Odagiri Masahiro Ashizawa Yoshimi Kitamura Satoshi
Adachi Toshiya Nishiyama Naomi Nakagomi Yuri Ochiai Hiromi
Sato Kota Nakajima Yukiko Enya Shigemi Arino Osamu
Asahi Newspaper Kajikazawa Section Yamanashi Dairy NewsPaper Co.
Yomiuri Newspaper Kofu Section Watanabe Newspaper Shop
Oogi Photo Shop


　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 (English: Arino Osamu & Christpher Ray Jordan)