Nearly a year on, the children of the Hino district of Kyoto’s Fushimi Ward at last seem as if they are getting back to normal.
Not so long ago, says 67-year-old community leader Osamu Ueno, they were “really stiff.” Now they clown around with him as they used to, before Hino Elementary School became the main attraction of a media circus last winter.
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