大熊町に商業施設オープン　飲食店など、避難解除後初―福島

　東京電力福島第１原発事故の避難指示が一部で解除された福島県大熊町で５日、飲食店や日用雑貨店など９店舗が入る商業施設がオープンした。２０１９年４月の避難解除後、公設民営の複合施設の開所は初めて。住民帰還の課題となっていた買い物環境が向上する。
　商業施設には飲食店４店舗のほか、コンビニや美容室も入居。近くの災害公営住宅で暮らす山本重男さん（７１）は「ちょっとした買い物や散髪で隣町に出掛けていたので助かる」と話した。
　事故前から町内で営業していた７店舗が帰還した。喫茶店「レインボー」では、開店と同時に当時の常連客が次々に訪れた。笑顔で会話を交わした店主の武内一司さん（６７）は「（散り散りになった町民の）交流の場をつくりたいと思って戻ってきた」と力を込めた。（2021/04/05-15:51）

A commercial facility opened on Monday in Okuma, a town hosting the disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant where the evacuation order has been partially lifted for the return of residents.
   It is the first opening of a publicly-built, privately-operated complex facility in the Fukushima Prefecture town since the evacuation order, issued due to the March 2011 triple meltdown at the nuclear plant of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. , was lifted in the town for the first time in April 2019.
   The power plant straddles Okuma and the town of Futaba, both in the northeastern Japan prefecture.
   The facility hosts nine businesses including four eateries, a convenience store, a sundries shop and a hair salon, easing the lack of shops that has been an obstacle to the return.
   "It's helpful as I had to go to a neighboring town for a little shopping and a haircut," said Shigeo Yamamoto, a 71-year-old man living nearby in permanent housing for disaster-affected people.