Eita Sato, 15, and Aoi Hoshi, 15, the only two students at Yumoto Junior High School, keep warm next to a stove during break time between lessons, on the day before their graduation and the institution’s closing ceremony, in Ten-ei Village, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, March 10, 2023. Eita and Aoi, who have been together since three, are the last two graduates of Yumoto Junior High, a public school established in 1947 that in its prosperous years sent out more than 50 graduates, but with only a few enrolments expected in the coming years, the village decided to close the school for good. “We heard rumours about the school closure in the second year, but I didn’t really think it would happen. I was shocked when I heard the news,” Eita said. REUTERS/Issei Kato
