School Room bin replaced the open hearth furnaces

replaced the open hearth furnaces that had run since 1931

with tools still sitting where they were left beneath layers of peeling colour

dating from the transition to electronic and computer systems during the 1960s and 70s

Boarded Public Housing at Yubari

which served the Tigers and the surrounding working-class suburb from 1957

School Room bin replaced the open hearth furnacesEmpty desks and chairs stand in rows beneath windows that still let the light in, in a classroom at Family School Fureai in Yubari, Hokkaido. The building opened as Yubari Municipal Asahi Elementary School in 1975, consolidating three predecessor schools into one reinforced concrete three storey structure. Asahi closed in 1983, only eight years after it opened. Part of the Family School Fureai series.