Sayaka Watanabe and Kazuki/Yomiuri Shimbun staff Uchimoto writers
OTSUCHICHO, Iwate-to-revive local beach, known attempts in surfers paradise are banding together in the building, the wreckage that washed during training 11. in March, after the tsunami, and clear the debris.
Namiita beach is a lot of opportunities for young people attracted the Otsuchicho contributed to the recent issue of new ryhtiä in the city, which was struggling to population ageing and inadequate to undertakings in the fisheries sector.
Local surfers at the beach you want to restore the former glory the pulsating city of aid, the impact of their efforts in the reconstruction in the hope of a whole.
"The right to CLEAN UP the sea, are presumed to be," said Hiroshi, a professional surfer Sugimoto, 43, the garbage bag in hand. About 120 of the surfers had gathered on the beach--some of the Iwate Prefecture and the others who had traveled to Chiba and Aichi Prefecture--after being contacted directly or see the call off of Sugimoto in his Web site.
Strewn along the 800-meter-long beach had been destroyed, small boats, furniture, clothes, and the occasional pillars of household goods.
After the sale of people, who died in the disaster, the silent prayer, the crowd broke the teams, and began to collect the KAMA RIVER.
Namiita beach is known as a consistent waves are all ability levels and ideal for surfers will attract about 60 000 people per year.
Sugimoto, who was born in the neighboring town of Kamaishi, was visiting Namiita, because he was a student of the middle school. He opened in 2003 to surf Shop sea shore and give lessons to the local high as surfing school.
He was a central figure in the group, which started the annual surfing competition to draw the young and the city to rebuild on the beach The City Government for the aid provided for in the form of prizes in the competition, which attracted fields in more than 100 Surfers.
On March 11 about the disaster by residents--more than 10% of the local population--were killed or went missing.
When the quake hit, Sugimoto was his Surf Shop. The feeling after the massive jolt, he ran up a hill nearby. There he watched as the fattening farm, the city had swallowed the tsunami.
The debris, which was dumped on the beach of the disaster, in addition, throughout all of the damage for the purposes of emergency evacuation stairs, built on the destruction.
"It is difficult to attract people to the beach," a local official said.
Sugimoto is also the first idea is difficult to surfing on the beach again. But he changed his mind in late April, when his buddy and fellow surfer Yasuyuki cwarned Koike, "I want you to shop is restarted."
Koike, who is the interior finishing work, Kamaishi resides in the temporary housing of the unit, after his house was the remaining restrictions on the tsunami. His words convinced not only of his shop and Sugimoto, Start browsing again, they also inspired the cleanup project.
The second session of the cleanup is planned for the beach, on 31 July.
"I want young people to return to the beach, although it takes several years," Sugimoto said.
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