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P.R. Managerial Meeting
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General Manager: Dr.Kazunori Wada, Representative managers: Mr. Eiji Aoki, Ms. Harumi Moriki, Mr. Yasushi Josen,Mr. Takahiro Yamanashi,Mr. Toshio Yarimizo, Mr. Masuo Kondo, Mr. Minoru Kikuchi, Managers: Mr. Daiki Takahashi, Mr. Ryuji Kazama, Mr. Takayuki Ayabe, Ms. Yuko Nagaya, Mr. Hirohisa Koga, Mr. Tomohiro Fujita, Dr. Masatoshi Denda, Mr. Akira Sakano, Mr. Takao Yamakoshi, Mr. Nobuharu Isago, Mr. Yoshikazu Shimizu
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General Manager: Mr. Akira Ogasawara, Managers: Mr. Nobuhiko Komachiya, Mr. Hiroshi Ota, Mr. Satoshi Mori, Mr.Kouji Katakura, Mr.Morito Takahashi, Mr. Hiroyasu Kyoshi, Dr. Motoki Asano, Mr. Mitsugu Kamada, Mr. Hiroshi Horiuchi

Editor’s Note

I was born in 1963. I belong to a generation that has never experienced wartime conditions, although this expression seems almost obsolete now. I was born only 18 years after World War II ended in 1945, but I remember childhood surroundings that seemed more peaceful and warmer than now. This may be because lots of adults at the time had lived through wartime conditions, and strongly felt that they should pass the misery of wartime on to children who had not experienced it.
These adults acted to make such a war never happened again and tried to build a peaceful world.
Now the times have changed. The recent disaster in northeastern Japan reduced many residential towns to rubble, and lots of people are still trying to find missing family members. Several external walls of the Fukushima nuclear power plant were blown out by explosions, and immediate measures were taken by the fire service and the Japan Self-Defense Forces. The damage inflicted by the Tohoku Region Pacific Coast Earthquake was so shocking that I imagined, even as a member of the generation with no experience of wartime conditions, that this might be akin to the aftermath of the war.
I was not affected directly by the earthquake, but I want to send a message to children who haven’t experienced disasters It is a fact that sufferers help each other voluntarily and maintain social order even in stricken areas where administrative and urban functions were almost wiped out. Some items were bought up quickly in my local supermarket after the disaster, but this was not the case in the Tohoku region, where people took care of each other. The attitudes of these people should never be forgotten.
I sincerely hope that the region will recover as soon as possible.

(Hirohumi KITSUTA)