To encourage Hiroshima residents sheltering in the city's elementary school following last week's deadly landslides, two students launched the first edition of an illustrated handwritten wall newspaper.
The newspaper was launched Sunday by 12-year-old Hiroyo Miyamoto, who is in her first year of junior high school. She graduated from Bairin Elementary School, which is now serving as an emergency shelter for 600 in Asaminami Ward residents.
Miyamoto said she came up with the idea from the Fight Shimbun published by children who took refuge at an evacuation center in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.