Komatsushima Mill has opened a field on its grounds to soccer schools and high school clubs in the community, which use it for soccer. Built in 1982 as part of an environmental initiative, the field was actually created by employees themselves, who seeded and grew the grass. It has since found a number of uses, given the relative scarcity of grass pitches in Tokushima Prefecture. In 1991, for example, the NHK Soccer School used the field. And in 1993, the NHK Cup Tokushima Junior High School Soccer Championship was also held there and broadcast on the NHK main channel. Komatsushima Boys’ Soccer School began using the field in 1975 when several members of the Komatsushima Mill Soccer Club, known as the ‘Kokusaku Kickers’ began to assist the school as instructors. The school has consistently excelled in soccer, having won first prize twice and second prize five times in the prefectural tournament. Since 2001, the grounds at Komatsushima High School have been unavailable because school buildings are being rebuilt. The soccer club has been using the field at Komatsushima Mill for practice. - Comments by a user of the field Hiroshi Yokota, Coach of the Komatsushima High School Soccer Club Thanks to the opening of the field to the community, we now have the opportunity to use this excellent environment to meet with soccer enthusiasts in the community and try our skills out on strong teams from other prefectures in practice games. This has also contributed to the emergence of the first J-League player to come from our school, Hiroyuki Hayashi, who is also a member of the national team for the U-20 World Cup. We are really grateful for this support, both in the past and in the future. The NHK Cup Tokushima Junior High School Soccer Chanpionship Komatsushima Boys' Soccer School