A 30-year-old female reader in Hiroshima contacted the Chugoku Shimbun one day to convey her frustration that school lunches are thrown away when schools shut down due to heavy rain.
"I heard that whenever elementary and junior high schools are canceled after a heavy rain warning is issued, school lunches prepared for that day are thrown away," she wrote to the newspaper using the messaging app Line. "It is sad to hear, as food waste has become a problem."
On June 7, a heavy rain warning was issued in the city of Hiroshima. According to the city's board of education, 101 elementary schools as well as 40 junior high schools closed.