In Futaba Town, Fukushima Prefecture, where all the residents were forced to evacuate due to the accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2011, and the residents finally started to return last year, a "Hata wo Celebration Party" was held to replace the coming-of-age ceremony. was held, and 12 people who were second graders at the time of the accident were happy to meet again after a long time.
Futaba Town, where the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is located, was the last of the 12 municipalities to receive evacuation orders following the nuclear accident last August.
The Hatachi wo Celebration Party was held at the newly constructed town office in front of Futaba Station on the JR Joban Line. Of the 58 people who turned 20 years old this year, 12 from outside the town or prefecture who had evacuated attended. Did.
At the ceremony, Mayor Shiro Izawa gave a congratulatory address, saying, "I feel heartened to see everyone who has overcome adversity and grown both physically and mentally."
Next, on behalf of the executive committee, Ms. Yutaka Hayashi, a student at a vocational school in Sendai City, said, ``As a new generation, there are many things that are expected of us. There is no need to feel guilty or responsible.I would like to work with everyone here to create a society that our children and grandchildren will not be ashamed of."
After the ceremony, a female student from Iwaki City said, "She met a familiar face again and realized that she had turned 20."
A male university student from Miyagi Prefecture said, "I'm majoring in engineering and civil engineering, so I want to be involved in reconstruction projects."