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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 1453367, member: 4381&quot;]In a continuing trend of bypassing child labor laws to get free and strange coin designs, enter japan</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120530004044.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120530004044.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120530004044.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Boy&#039;s design chosen for coin</p><p><br /></p><p>The Yomiuri Shimbun</p><p><br /></p><p>A 9-year-old boy has become the youngest Japanese to have ever designed a government memorial coin after his artwork was chosen for one of the coins to be issued to commemorate the Great East Japan Earthquake reconstruction project.</p><p><br /></p><p>The design by Taichi Kojima, a fourth-grader at Odawara municipal Kuno Primary School in Kanagawa Prefecture, shows a boy holding Japanese flags, with &quot;Ganbaro Nippon&quot; (Hang on, Japan) written in colorful words beside him.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the third time the government has chosen designs for memorial coins from the public. The previous coins commemorated the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1985 Tsukuba Exposition.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20120531a5.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20120531a5.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20120531a5.html</a></p><p>Boy, 9, awarded for coin design urging recovery</p><p>Kyodo</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[h=1]Boy, 9, awarded for coin design urging recovery[/h]&nbsp; &nbsp; Kyodo</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Finance Ministry has selected three new&nbsp; designs for commemorative coins, including one by a 9-year-old boy&nbsp; depicting his desire for the nation&#039;s early recovery from the March 2011&nbsp; earthquake and tsunami.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>[TABLE=&quot;align: right&quot;]</p><p>&nbsp;[TR]</p><p>&nbsp;[TD]<img src="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/images/photos2012/nb20120531a5a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/TD]</p><p>&nbsp;[/TR]</p><p>&nbsp;[TR]</p><p>&nbsp;[TD]<font size="1"><b>Brave face: A design by Taichi Kojima is shown on a&nbsp; ¥1,000 commemorative coin in a computer rendering from the Finance&nbsp; Ministry.&nbsp;&nbsp; </b> KYODO</font>[/TD]</p><p>&nbsp;[/TR]</p><p>&nbsp;[/TABLE]</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Taichi Kojima, a fourth-grader at an elementary&nbsp; school in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, along with two adults, aged 40&nbsp; and 60, were selected after the ministry sought ideas for the coins,&nbsp; which are to be presented to people who buy large amounts of the&nbsp; government-issued reconstruction bonds.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Kojima&#039;s design, which depicts a boy holding&nbsp; two national flags with a message in the background stating, &quot;Cheer up,&nbsp; Japan,&quot; will appear on one side of ¥1,000 silver coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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