111-year-old school building

OSAKA, Japan - A woman who used to teach at Fukiya Elementary School touches the keyboard of an organ, which has been there since the school's foundation, in the school's 111-year-old wooden building in Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, in October 2011. The school is to close in spring 2012.

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