復興願い、五輪会場に植樹　都と被災４県

　東京五輪・パラリンピックの競技会場となる有明アリーナ（東京都江東区）で６日、東日本大震災や熊本地震の被災地の復興を願う植樹が行われた。植樹式に都幹部と岩手、宮城、福島、熊本の被災４県の東京事務所長が出席。「復興五輪」のシンボルとして、４県の県木が植えられた。
　植えられたのは、岩手がアカマツ、宮城と福島がケヤキ、熊本がクスノキ。福島県の内堀雅雄知事は「被災４県の樹木が力強く成長し、復興五輪を語り継ぐレガシーとなることを心から願う」との祝辞を寄せた。
　有明アリーナは、大会でバレーボールと車いすバスケットボールの会場として使用される。（2021/06/06-16:05）

A tree planting ceremony was held at Ariake Arena in Tokyo's Koto Ward, which will be used as a venue for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, in hopes of the reconstruction of disaster-hit prefectures in Japan.
   At the ceremony, held Sunday, officials of the northeastern prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, which were hit by the 2011 major earthquake and tsunami, and the southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto, which experienced powerful earthquakes in 2016, planted respective prefectural trees as symbols of the "Reconstruction Olympics."
   Iwate Prefecture planted a Japanese red pine tree, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures Japanese zelkova trees and Kumamoto Prefecture a camphor tree.
   "I sincerely hope that the trees of the four disaster-affected prefectures will grow strongly to become legacies that pass down stories of the Reconstruction Olympics," Fukushima Governor Masao Uchibori said in a message sent to the ceremony, which was also joined by senior officials of the Tokyo metropolitan government.
   Japanese authorities have dubbed the Tokyo Games the Reconstruction Olympics to showcase the progress of reconstruction efforts.