新研究拠点で「創造的復興」　震災１０年で基本方針―政府

　政府は９日の閣議で、東日本大震災１０年を前に、新たな復興基本方針を決定した。東京電力福島第１原発事故の被災地域に設置する「国際教育研究拠点」を「創造的復興の中核拠点」として位置付けたことなどが柱。事故の影響で原発周辺地域の住民の帰還が進まない中、拠点づくりを通じて本格的な復興につなげられるかが課題となる。
　菅義偉首相は、閣議に先立ち開かれた復興推進会議・原子力災害対策本部会議の合同会合で「『福島の復興なくして東北の復興なし、東北の復興なくして日本の再生なし』という決意の下に引き続き政府の最重要課題として取り組む必要がある」と、改めて強調した。（2021/03/09-08:24）

The Japanese government said Tuesday it plans to build a new international education and research center that will serve as a "core hub of creative reconstruction" in Fukushima Prefecture, where a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered a serious nuclear accident a decade ago.
   The research center forms the pillar of the government's new basic policy for reconstruction, adopted at Tuesday's cabinet meeting ahead of Thursday's 10th anniversary of the natural disaster that devastated the country's Tohoku northeastern region, including Fukushima, on March 11, 2011.
   The center will be established in an area affected by the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
   As the return of evacuees to areas surrounding the Fukushima plant has been slow, it remains to be seen whether the new research center would pave the way for full-fledged reconstruction.
   "Without the reconstruction of Fukushima, there will be no recovery of Tohoku. Without the reconstruction of Tohoku, there will be no revival of Japan," said Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at a joint meeting of the government's Reconstruction Promotion Council and Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters, held ahead of the cabinet meeting.