TOHOKU, Mar 18 (News On Japan) –
A donkey pulls a handcart whereas a person walks quietly beside it, as former newspaper reporter Kotaro Takada, 36, and his associate, an 8-year-old male donkey named Kusatsune, make their manner alongside the Sea of Japan coast on a 900-kilometer journey from Yakumo in southern Hokkaido to Chiba, promoting handmade “donkey salt” produced utilizing deep-sea water from the Sea of Japan.
Carrying their items within the cart, the pair journey about 20 kilometers a day, crossing mountain passes, assembly folks alongside the best way, and sometimes taking detours. In the Tohoku area, they go to an elementary college preserved as a catastrophe memorial from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the place Takada listens to the tales of a narrator who misplaced a baby within the tragedy.
Takada left his job at a newspaper firm on the age of 26 and frolicked touring abroad, the place he encountered working donkeys and have become deeply fascinated by them. Now, as he camps outside whereas staying alert to the danger of bears, his journey unfolds at a tempo far faraway from effectivity.
Yet it’s exactly Kusatsune’s regular stride that enables new views to emerge—surroundings and encounters that may in any other case go unnoticed. Rather than a journey pushed by targets or achievements, it’s guided by Takada’s need to “work together with a donkey,” shifting ahead slowly however intentionally.
Source: HBCニュース 北海道放送