Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori visited Tokyo Metropolitan Akikawa Senior High School, Akiruno City, Tokyo, a boarding school housing children evacuated from Miyakejima because of persistent volcanic activity, to encourage them. Arriving at the school a little after 7:00 A.M., the Prime Minister shared breakfast with the children, who had been separated from their families since being evacuated at the end of August, and chatted with them.