廃校 - Haiko Summit
"Haiko" means "Closed Schools" in Japanese term.
Japan is now suffering from national low birth rate and high migration of the youth to the cities, leaving the schools in villages abandoned, and finally forced to closed.
There are many Haikos in Yamaguchi Prefecture today, the buildings and infrastructure are still so good, the surroundings are still so natural and untouched. The best part is, the elderly people are still so young in mind and heart to share whatever possible to bring us, the young, back to these villages again.
They even created The Yamaguchi Haiko Summit, in order to bring back life to these closed schools in the villages. They are gathering ideas from wherever and whoever possible to help waking the Haikos up again. I am beyond blessed to be trusted a chance to help them gather ideas on designing these Haikos into a new center where people will love to gather around villages again. If any of you would love to help them, just leave them a message of your young and fresh ideas, even if their site is in Japanese, they do understand English well. This one was held in Homei Haiko.
Honestly, being a youth in this room had trully brought shame to myself and my generation. I know our generation are mostly born in the cities, not in villages.
I know our generation are in love with convenient stores, not in rice fields and rivers. But we should also know, that our earth was basically born out of the nature, not out of the industries.
Therefore, let us respect and help those who knows this earth better, the elderly and eventually, the earth itself. We may be the young today, but we will be the old like them too, one day.
Thank you for reminding us to believe in life beyond the inconvenience. I am sorry for making you experience the convenience of my generation, we call it: your first-time-ever-selfie :D
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JP.09.10.2016
