[Sea and Japan Project Public Relations Office] “Spo GOMI Koshien 2024 Okayama Prefecture Tournament” winning team “Futakotamagawa Gakuen Team” Tamano High School students paid a courtesy visit to Okayama Prefectural Office
Sea and Japan Project Public Relations Office Press release: November 11, 2024 “Spo GOMI Koshien 2024 Okayama Prefectural Tournament” winning team “Futakotamagawa Gakuen Team” Tamano High School students paid a courtesy visit to the Okayama Prefectural Office Tuesday, November 5, 2024 “Spo GOMI Koshien” is an event in which high school students between the ages of 15 and 18 form teams of three, pick up trash within a designated area within a 60-minute time limit, and compete for points based on quality and quantity. The purpose of this event is to encourage people to take on the problem of trash in their towns and oceans as their own, by having fun picking up trash with friends as a gentle sport. The Futako Tamagawa Gakuen Team, made up of three current students of Tamano High School (Tamano City, Okayama Prefecture, Principal: Osamu Fujiwara), won the “Spo GOMI Koshien 2024 Okayama Prefecture Tournament” held on September 21, 2024. We paid a courtesy visit to Shigeyuki Okuma, Director of the Okayama Prefecture Department of Environment and Culture, to report on the results of the tournament. This event was held as part of the marine litter countermeasure project “Ocean and Japan Project – CHANGE FOR THE BLUE” promoted by the Nippon
Foundation, and planned by the Social Sports Foundation.
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introduction, declaration of determination for the national
tournament, encouraging greetings, souvenir presentation, photo session Participants’ comments (Director Shigeyuki Okuma, Department of Environment and Culture, Okayama Prefecture) I want them to do their best and aim for victory at the national tournament that will be held in Tokyo in December. (Mr. Miyata, representative of the winning team) At the national tournament in December, my only goal is to win as a representative of Okayama Prefecture. I take on the challenge with a strategy of assigning roles in advance and working hard individually in each role.
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https://www.spogomi.or.jp/ Activities: Operations necessary for holding and operating events related to Sports GOMI Koshien. Image
URL: https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/77920/3061/77920-3061-32719481d4404ba3cecf0f4f5b230d90-632×260.png CHANGE FOR THE BLUE As part of the Nippon Foundation’s “Ocean and Japan Project,” the 2018 This is a project that has been underway since November. We will work with stakeholders from industry, government, academia, and the public to create a marine litter reduction model and disseminate it domestically and internationally. https://uminohi.jp/umigomi/
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/77920/3061/77920-3061-29b1a6f330c44bb1eef44278bc9f31b5-1868×535.png Nippon Foundation “Ocean and Japan Project” The sea supports Japanese people’s lives in various ways, sometimes giving them peace of mind, excitement, and inspiration. This is an all-Japan project that aims to encourage people across the country, including children, to view the ongoing environmental deterioration of the ocean as their own, and to expand the circle of action to preserve the ocean for future generations. is. https://uminohi.jp/
