Kesennuma City Great East Japan Earthquake Memorial Museum Summer Holiday Special Event

During the summer vacation period, the Kesennuma Great East Japan Earthquake Relics and Memorial Museum will be hosting events where the whole family can see, hear, participate and learn.
Families, friends, and even individuals are all welcome. Let's all have fun learning about disaster prevention!

【period】
Saturday, August 2025, 7 - Monday, August 26, 9

[Event Program]
Go to the Folk Museum during summer vacation!
Families, friends, and even individuals are all welcome.
Let's all have fun learning about disaster prevention!

■Special panel exhibition celebrating the 350th anniversary of the introduction of bonito fishing
"350 Years of Disasters and Maritime Accidents in Kesennuma City"
Period: Saturday, May 7th to Monday, June 26th
Time: 9:30am - 17pm
Content: A panel exhibition will be held that explores the tsunami disasters and maritime disasters that have changed the history of Kesennuma over the past 350 years. You can learn about the tragedies and lessons that have been passed down, as well as the wisdom of our ancestors, and think about the future of disaster prevention.

■ Disaster Prevention True or False Quiz Rally
Period: Saturday, May 7th to Monday, June 26th
Time: 9:30am - 17pm
Content: A quiz that you can take part in while touring the earthquake ruins. Participants will receive original goods.

■ YouTuber experience
Period: XNUM X Month X NUM X Day
Time: 9:30 to 12:30
Capacity: First 10 people
Target: Junior high school students in the city
Lecturer: Sanriku Tech LLC
Content: This workshop will teach you the basics of planning, shooting, and editing videos using your smartphone. You will also try filming actual earthquake ruins.
For more information, click here

■Trail mix making workshop
Period: April 8th (Sat)
Time: 11:15-XNUMX:XNUMX (held as needed)
Location: Experience Exchange Hall
Price: 500 yen
Contents: Make a trail mix using nuts, dried fruit, chocolate, etc. that can be used not only in emergencies but also as a regular snack or emergency food.

■Anjo Gakuen Orchestra Concert
Period: April 8th (Sat)
Time: 16:30am - 17pm
Location: Experience Exchange Hall
Content: The Anjo Gakuen High School String Club will perform a special concert.

■Everyone is a storyteller
Period: December 8nd (Sun) to December 10th (Wed)
Time: 9:40am - 15pm
Content: A group of storytellers, mainly middle and high school students and young people, will accompany you on a tour of the remains of the earthquake disaster.

■Let's all have tea
Period: Monday, August 8th
Time: 10:15 to XNUMX:XNUMX
Location: Experience Exchange Hall
Content: Why not have a cup of tea with local people and talk about your thoughts on the earthquake disaster?

Disaster Prevention Workshop: "Let's all raise our disaster prevention awareness!"
Period: August 8th (Tue) - August 12th (Wed)
Time: 10:15 to XNUMX:XNUMX
Location: Experience Exchange Hall
Content: A disaster prevention workshop led by young storytellers. Think about what to put in your emergency pouch, and turn your impressions from touring the museum into a slogan.

■ Programming and craft workshop / Disaster prevention Iroha Karuta ※Kesennuma Koyo High School collaboration project
Period: XNUM X Month X NUM X Day
Time: 10:15 to XNUMX:XNUMX
Capacity: First 30 people
Target audience: Elementary and junior high school students (elementary school students and younger must be accompanied by a parent or guardian)
Content: Experience programming crafts and disaster prevention Iroha Karuta with students from Kesennuma Koyo High School.

■ Disaster Prevention Day Special Seminar "What we learned and what we need to convey from the Great East Japan Earthquake - Through the damage at Koyo High School"
Period: XNUM X Month X NUM X Day
Time: 10:12 to XNUMX:XNUMX
Location: Experience Exchange Hall
Capacity: First 50 people
Lecturer: Mr. Motohiko Takeda, then vice principal of Kesennuma Koyo High School
Content: To coincide with Disaster Prevention Day on September 9st, we will be holding a lecture by Mr. Motohiko Takeda, who was vice principal of Kesennuma Koyo High School at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

・A separate admission fee will be required to enter the earthquake ruins for each event.
・Please note that the event schedule and content may be changed or canceled without notice.

[Webpage]
https://www.kesennuma-memorial.jp/event/detail.php?id=184

★Now accepting submissions for the "3rd Future Senryu Contest"★

The annual "Future Senryu Contest."
We are looking for senryu poems with the themes of disaster prevention, mitigation, and earthquake disaster tradition. Please feel free to write about your thoughts and feelings about earthquakes and disasters, or what you would like to convey from your own experiences. Please submit works that will help people who write senryu poems and those who read them to take the earthquake as their own, leading to a future in which disaster prevention and mitigation awareness is heightened.

【Application period】
February 7th (Tuesday) to February 7th (Sunday), 22
*If sent by mail, the postmark on the same day will be valid.

[Application Category]
①General category ②High school student category ③Junior high school category ④Elementary school student category

【Application method】
Please fill out the application form with your name (with furigana), pen name (if you have one), address, age, school, grade and phone number along with your work, and submit by bringing it to the office, mailing it, faxing it or emailing it.

[Application address]
If sending by mail, please send to Kesennuma City Great East Japan Earthquake Memorial and Memorial Museum, 988-0246, Namikamisemukai, Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, 9-1
・By fax: 0226-28-9675
・By email → info@kesennuma-memorial.jp
・Application forms can be downloaded from the Great East Japan Earthquake Heritage and Memorial Museum website (https://www.kesennuma-memorial.jp/event/detail.php?id=183).
*You can also apply using a form other than the application form if you fill in the required information in the [How to Apply] above.

【Application rules】
・Each person may submit a maximum of two works.
・Submitted works must be original, unpublished works created by the individual and must not infringe on any third party copyrights.
・Submitted works will not be returned. Furthermore, the copyright belongs to the organizer.
・The submitted works and applicants' names will be displayed at the Kesennuma Great East Japan Earthquake Heritage and Memorial Museum.
・Submitted works and applicants' names may be made public on the Kesennuma City Great East Japan Earthquake Heritage and Memorial Museum website, on social media, in the Sanriku Shimpo newspaper, etc.
・From all submitted works, one Grand Prize winner and three Excellence Prize winners will be selected in each category.

[Notes on application]
・Entries must be unpublished.
- Personal information such as your address and name will not be used for any purpose other than coordinating and communicating about the haiku submission process.
・Please be sure to enter your real name as it will be necessary for contacting you if you win an award.
If you do not wish your name to be published, please enter a pen name and we will publish your pen name.
・If you are a child or student, your school name and grade will be published, so please be aware of this before applying.
Please provide a phone number where you can be contacted during the day.

■Sponsors: Kesennuma City Board of Education, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sanriku Shimpo, Kesennuma Cable Television Network, Radio Kesennuma

[Webpage]
https://www.kesennuma-memorial.jp/event/detail.php?id=183

Kesennuma City Great East Japan Earthquake Memorial Museum Official Website