page_title: Kyoikuto
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kyoikuto / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Kyoikuto, the Education Tower, found in Osaka Castle Park. Taken in 17th June 2019. It is a memorial for the victims of Muroto typhoon in 1934.
context_page_description: The Kyoikuto, or the Education Tower is a memorial tower located in Osaka Castle Park in Chuo Ward, Osaka City. It serves as a memorial for the victims of Muroto typhoon in 1934.
context_section_description: On the morning of September 21, 1934, Muroto typhoon hit Kansai region. The typhoon strikes during school time, and many wooden school buildings were destroyed, causing the death of more than 600 children, and 25 school staffs. Immediately after the disaster, the education community in Osaka hopes that such a catastrophe will never happen again, and proposes the construction of a monument order to commemorate the children and the school staffs  that dies in the disaster. The Imperial Education Council decided to build a monument. People from all over Japan responded to this call, including children, students, teachers and volunteers, and together, they contributed more than 320,000 yen for building the memorial tower. The tower is completed on October 30, 1936.
  The construction of the tower took about 350,000 yen in total. The tower itself cost 175,000 yen, while the other expenses include ceremony expenses, preparation expenses, etc. The tower was designed by Mr. Shimakawa Seiya, while the relief on the front of the tower was sculpted by sculptor Mr. Hasegawa Yoshiki.
caption: Kyoikuto, the Education Tower.
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