御嶽山噴火７年、遺族ら献花　「本当に良い子だった」―長野

　死者５８人、行方不明者５人を出した御嶽山（長野・岐阜県境、３０６７メートル）の噴火は２７日、発生から７年を迎えた。麓にある長野県王滝村の松原スポーツ公園では献花式が開かれ、遺族らが発生時刻の午前１１時５２分に合わせて黙とうをささげた。
　献花式は王滝村と同県木曽町が主催。例年開かれていた追悼式は、新型コロナウイルス感染拡大の影響で中止となり、規模を縮小して献花式を開催した。
　亡くなった荒井真友さん＝当時（４１）＝の父寿雄さん（７９）＝同県東御市＝は「友達に恵まれ、素直で本当に良い子だった」としのび、持参した千羽鶴を献花台に供えた。噴火時、真友さんと一緒だった同僚男性（４７）も参列し、「７年はあっという間だった。（真友さんの両親を）見守っていてほしい」と話した。（2021/09/27-16:42）

A flower-offering ceremony was held on the seventh anniversary Monday of a 2014 eruption of Mount Ontake in central Japan that killed 58 people and left five others missing.
   The ceremony took place at a park in the village of Otaki, Nagano Prefecture, at the foot of the 3,067-meter volcano, which straddles Nagano and Gifu prefectures.
   Participants offered silent prayers at 11:52 a.m. (2:52 a.m. GMT), the time when the disaster occurred on Sept. 27, 2014.
   Otaki and the town of Kiso, also Nagano, canceled an annual memorial ceremony this year due to the spread of the novel coronavirus. Instead, they held the flower-laying ceremony on a smaller scale.
   "I've been keeping him waiting (in the mountain) for seven years. I want to bring him back somehow, no matter how many years it takes," said Masanori Nomura, whose nephew, Ryota, is among those still unaccounted for.