Letters from Kobe

Letters from Kobe

ONAGAWA, Japan - A person reads encouragement letters posted at Onagawa Daini Elementary School in the town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, from fifth-graders at Yamada Elementary School in Kobe, western Japan, on March 21, 2011. A wide area of northeastern and eastern Japan was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, while Kobe was also devastated by a catastrophic earthquake on Jan. 17, 1995.

"MLB Cup" created for children in Japan

"MLB Cup" created for children in Japan

Retired Major League Baseball pitcher Randy Johnson (C in back row), a National Baseball Hall of Famer and the Arizona Diamondbacks' special assistant to the president & CEO, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 18, 2015, in which the creation of the MLB Cup 2016, a baseball tournament for fourth and fifth graders in Japan, was announced. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Pupils in Osaka Pref. learn how to cultivate rice seeds

Pupils in Osaka Pref. learn how to cultivate rice seeds

Fifth graders in Tondabayashi, Osaka Prefecture, on May 12, 2015, learn from a local farmer how to cultivate rice seeds in buckets. The rice seeds were harvested from "miracle rice" provided by a nonprofit organization in Iwate Prefecture in February 2014 as a token of appreciation for support for the area affected by the 2011 disaster. The "miracle rice" was derived from the crops found growing in land hit by the 2011 tsunami in northeastern Japan following the Great East Japan Earthquake. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Saying goodbye to tsunami-hit school

Saying goodbye to tsunami-hit school

KESENNUMA, Japan - A girl takes pictures of a muddy classroom at Minamikesennuma Elementary School in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 6, 2012. She and 39 other fifth graders visited the school for the first time since it was hit by the March 2011 tsunami to take pictures before the school's official closure at the end of the month. (Kyodo)

Letters from Kobe

Letters from Kobe

ONAGAWA, Japan - A person reads encouragement letters posted at Onagawa Daini Elementary School in the town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, from fifth-graders at Yamada Elementary School in Kobe, western Japan, on March 21, 2011. A wide area of northeastern and eastern Japan was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, while Kobe was also devastated by a catastrophic earthquake on Jan. 17, 1995. (Kyodo)

Tokyo kite master teaches children around world to fly

Tokyo kite master teaches children around world to fly

LOS ANGELES, United States - Edo kite master Mikio Toki (L) stands with fifth-graders at Kentwood Elementary School in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2010, showing off their handmade kites after a workshop organized by the Japan America Society of Southern California. (Kyodo)