Mayor Kanno of Iitate-mura, Fukushima announced his retirement. “The road to reconstruction was completed.” July 6, 18:20
Norio Kanno, mayor of Iitate Village, Fukushima Prefecture, who has led the evacuation of residents and cancellation of evacuation orders due to the accident at the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, officially announced that he will retire for the current term until October this year. Did.
Norio Kanno, the village head of Iitate village, is 73 years old. It was the first election in the 1996 election for village mayor 24 years ago, and it is now the sixth term.
Mayor Sugano said at the press conference held on the 6th, “I was able to find a path to recovery. I decided not to run for the mayor election in October, because the 10th year was a good time to break.” And officially announced his retirement.
Iitate village is about 40 km northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, but the radiation dose increased due to the nuclear accident, and about one month after the accident, the entire area was designated as a "planned evacuation area", and Mayor Sugano is a resident. Commanded the evacuation of.
When the evacuation order was lifted in most of the villages in March 2017, six years after the accident, we worked on the construction of a roadside station and a new compulsory school for education, "Iitate Hope no Sato Gakuen".
Since the beginning of this year, we have been coordinating with the national government so that the evacuation order can be canceled without decontaminating the Nagamu area, which is the only area in the village that is difficult to return to after a nuclear accident.
Mayor Sugano said, "I didn't think I would serve as the mayor for such a long time. Thanks to the hard work of the country, the prefecture, and the residents, Iitate village is now and I would like to thank you for all the support and cooperation." It was