Fukushima Futaba Town First Bon Festival after Evacuation Order Canceled Visiting the grave from the evacuation site August 14 12:47
In Futaba Town, Fukushima Prefecture, where the evacuation order was lifted for the first time in spring this year, the people who have evacuated inside and outside the prefecture have reached the 10th Bon Festival after the Great East Japan Earthquake and the accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Is visiting the grave.
In Futaba Town, the evacuation order due to the nuclear power plant accident was canceled around the northeastern area of JR, which is 5% of the area of the town, and around JR stations this March, and people evacuating from inside and outside the prefecture will have consecutive holidays starting from last weekend. I am visiting the grave during the Bon holidays.
In the Nakahama area of the coastal area, Takasada Shiga who lives in the inland Saigo village about 80 km away visited the site of the tombs of his parents and ancestors on the morning of the 14th.
In this cemetery, most of the tombstones were washed away by the tsunami, and the pedestal of the remaining grave remained tilted because the restoration work could not be done due to the evacuation order due to the nuclear accident, and some graves such as Shiga's parents' grave Was buried in the construction of a new embankment.
Mr. Shiga pointed a flower at the tombstone of the parent who was collected and moved to another place, raised the incense at the place where the ancestral tombs were, and quietly joined hands.
Mr. Shiga said, "I am trying to find out what I will inherit and leave for future generations, but when I visited the grave, I felt that I was not alone. I felt sad about my mother. I'm glad I came."