Every child has been a hope of the age.
Parents have felt it a joy to have children and to love them,
and the children have grown up with their parent's love.
Long ago, every child had a more healthy heart than now,
even though they were exposed to awful infections or hunger.

It's difficult to endure living in real wild nature.
To overcome difficult lives, civilization has developed,
and gave us modern comforts and conveniences.
But our spirits are getting more vulnerable than before.

Never has there been an age when children's spirits were vulnerable as today.
If they go outdoors to touch and feel nature,
it is just one of their school programs, not their own lives.
Now we really see scenes of children fighting or playing together.
In Japan, the rate of working mothers is over 50%,
and small families are more popular than large families.

When I see the opportunities of a child who seemed to have eternal possibility
in his childhood shrinking, I feel very sad.
But almost all people encourage their children to study hard to enter a high-grade school.

When children grow up, they will have to support a lot of senior people.
I think it the burden will be too heavy for children who grew up just with studying.
No one knows how modern children should grow up.

But I want to believe in children.
When we watch children closely, we can see the hero who can surf over difficult age.
I want to wander looking for the way
that children and adults can walk together with joy.