4 children on behalf of the pupils will take part in Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Victims Memorial Peace Prayer Ceremony in August 2011 and interact with primary schools in Nagasaki. Prior to the ceremony, as a preliminary study, Tatsuo Miyajima, founder of the “Revive Time” Kaki Tree Project, conducted a lecture titled “The Kaki Tree Project that spread all over the world” on 8 July 2011. All the 190 pupils of Takaho Primary School and Mr. Seiji Arai, who applied for the project, as well as Takaho regional development committee members attended the lecture. The entrance of school’s gymnasium was decorated with the school seal, which is a design of persimmon flower.
On 31 October 2011, they will welcome Mr. Masayuki Ebinuma in Nagano and children will experience persimmon fruit peeling. Mr. Akinori Horigome, principal of the school, has proposed that this year all the pupils experience the entire process of making dried persimmon fruits from harvesting to box packing. They gave us their “Hoshigaki (dried persimmon fruits)” made last year. The fruits were soft and so tasty. Nacky (nongrafted tree) and Takky (grafted tree), both planted trees have been grown to over 5 meters high now.
