"I will never forget" Yaguchi Elementary School's closing ceremony brings 147 years of history to a close in Kihoku Town, Mie Prefecture

[Kitamuro District] On the 30th, a closing ceremony was held at Yaguchi Elementary School in Yaguchiura, Kihoku Town, which will close at the end of this fiscal year due to school consolidation. About 100 students and local residents attended and said goodbye to this school with 147 years of history. The school opened in 1877 in the main hall of the nearby Zenkoji Temple. The school had a peak of 181 students in 1958, but has now dropped to 12. …