2022 Volume 2 Issue 2 Pages 43-49
Todai Murajuku is a student club of the University of Tokyo, which conducts activities mainly at Futtsu City, Chiba and Iitate Village, Fukushima. During the first third year since its establishment in 2015, our activities were carried out almost exclusively in Futtsu City. However, in 2019, Iitate Village was chosen as another base of our activities. In the first year, we cultivated buckwheat and created a booklet “Iitate Murabito Zukan (A Pictorial Book of Iitate Villagers).” Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we had intermittently lost opportunities of visiting Iitate Village since April 2020, but we tried to keep in touch with villages online. From September 2021, we started creating the second volume of “Iitate Murabito Zukan.” Also, collaborating with Agriculture and Forestry Circle Futao at Fukushima University, we launched a new project of setting up a flower bed at the roadside station in Iitate Village. Recently, we finished making the flower bed and planting in it. In the future, we have to share the appeal of our activities more actively through social media. We will do what we can to contribute to Iitate Village with residents as a repayment for giving us a lot of wisdom. We will keep on our activities, valuing creative ideas as the youth and connections with villagers.
