In the Yuriage district of Natori City, Miyagi Prefecture, where many people died in the tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, people from groups working on volunteer activities in the wake of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake lined up bamboo lanterns in memory and set fire apart from Kobe. I prayed.
Hyogo Prefecture's volunteer group, "Hyogo Volunteer Plaza," dispatched volunteers to disaster-stricken areas nationwide in the wake of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake 27 years ago. And have continued to interact with the locals since then.
On the 11th, groups and locals gathered near the memorial monument in the Yuriage district of Natori City, Miyagi Prefecture.
Then, about 650 bamboo lanterns are lined up in memory of the victims, and each fire is divided into the "lights of hope" that have been lit in Kobe City in hopes of recovery from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. Was there.
At 2:46 pm, the time of the earthquake, we prayed for requiescats with the visitors.
Morio Takahashi (73), the director of the organization, said, "We have continued volunteer activities in return for the support of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. We will continue such exchanges in order to prevent the two earthquakes from being weathered. I want to. "