Fukushima Okuma Town The name of the first sake after the evacuation order was lifted was "Vurria"

Fukushima Okuma Town The name of the first sake after the evacuation order was lifted was "Vurria" September 24, 2:32

In the rice fields of Okuma Town, Fukushima Prefecture, where the evacuation order due to the nuclear accident was lifted, sake will be made from the rice harvested for the first time after the cancellation, and with the feeling that we have not forgotten to return to our hometown, "Vurria" It was named "Sato".

In Okuma Town, where the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is located, evacuation orders are still being given over a wide area, but sake rice was cultivated in the rice fields in the area where the evacuation orders were lifted last year, and it was the first time in September. Was harvested.

A commemorative ceremony was held at the town hall, and sake rice was handed over to a sake brewing company in Aizuwakamatsu City, which undertakes the brewing of new sake prototypes.

In addition, the name of a new sake selected from more than 370 applications was announced, and it became a "homecoming" that a man from Okuma-cho thought of.

The name implies that even if the townspeople are separated due to the evacuation from the nuclear accident, they will not forget to return to the town.

Wataru Takahashi, president of Takahashi Shosaku Sake Brewery, which undertakes sake brewing, said, "I think the quality of rice is higher than I expected. I want to take responsibility for making sake."

Mayor Jun Yoshida of Okuma Town said, "The name of sake sounds like a hope that it means Hope, and it makes me feel sad about my hometown. I think it was a good name."