MONTHLY ARCHIVES

Troop 1 Meguro celebrated its 65th Anniversary at Yukoden (Grand Hall) of Yutenji Temple on Sunday, 31st May 2015. The weather forecast of the day was raining but, it turned out to be a beautiful sunny day, just as though the Sun joined our celebration.

Scouts of all age groups, leaders, Committee members, and parents were all gathered. One of the biggest supporters of troop 1 Meguro, Mr. Aoki, our City Mayor, came together with his fellow members of Meguro Committee to celebrate our anniversary. A hundred people were attended.

The facilitator of the day was Rover Scout Natsuki Mori and the morning session started with the Opening Speech given by the Head of Scout Supporting Body, Mr. Katsunori Sugimoto, followed by Meguro City Mayor Aoki who comes to our key activities despite his busy schedule. In his speech, one of his plans to prepare for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic, Meguro City is planning City Marathon and in such occasion he would like to ask Troop 1 Meguro Scouts to join the support team. Then, President Hironobu Takane reported latest activities of Troop 1 Meguro.

natuki Mori Rover Scout ,Facilitator

kutyo Mr. Aoki, City Mayor

sugimoto Mr. Sugimoto ,Head of Scout Supporting Body

takane Mr.Takane,President

We took this opportunity to have a Troop 1 Entry Ceremony for scouts who joined since last year. Also 23rd WJS contingent members were introduced on the stage and given supporting funds from Troop 1 Meguro’s International exchange fund.

After the break, the second session started with very nice and tasty lunch followed by 65 years history of Troop 1 Meguro slide show, presented by Mr. Kenichiro Tanabe, vice president of Troop 1 Meguro who has been with Troop 1 Meguro for a long time. It was really something for Scouts and parents to see the photos how Troop 1 Meguro has established and also found leaders in the photos when they were Cub Scouts/Boy Scouts enjoying camps just like we are.

The final session of the Anniversary Session was a presentation by guest speaker Ms. Momoko Abe who is Fuji Award winner. She took the opportunity to grant funds specially given to Fuji Award winner to be able to go overseas. She also participated in the last World Scout Jamboree held in Sweden. Her photo slides and presentation was very exciting and told us that Boy Scout activities are very international.

65th Anniversary of Troop 1 Meguro coincide with World Scout Jamboree held in Japan where we are sending 5 Scouts and hope that they enjoy WSJ and have great experience with scouts with all over the world.
At 23rd WSJ, our members will be Japan Contingent Troop 0304 from Tokyo and reside Northern Hub. Please visit our Troop in WSJ.