In Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture, where 111 city employees were killed in the Great East Japan Earthquake, an inscription with the names of the victims was completed on the premises of the newly constructed city hall. bottom.
The inscription was set up by the Bereaved Family Association in a corner of the parking lot of Rikuzentakata City Hall, and the names of 93 of the 111 victims who had the consent of their families are written on it. ..
Approximately 40 bereaved families and staff attended the erection ceremony held on the 30th, and after all of them offered a silent prayer, Mitsugu Fujino, chairman of the Bereaved Family Association, said, "The inscription remains for decades and hundreds of years. It will be a storyteller for posterity. I want the city to face the monument and use it as a commandment and lesson not to make such a sacrifice again. "
In response, Mayor Futoshi Toba, who attended as a guest, said, "I regret that I should have strongly urged the staff to evacuate at that time. I sincerely apologize. I swear I don't. "
Mihoko Kashiwazaki (70), who lost her third daughter, Yui (25 years old at the time), who was the vice chairman of the Bereaved Family Association and was a public health nurse in the city, attended with a wristwatch to keep an eye on the monument. When I was worried about the activity, I was asking my daughter, "Is this okay?" I feel like she answered "I'm glad" from the sky in today's sunny weather. " I was talking.