双葉町で新庁舎開庁式　１１年半ぶり町内業務へ―福島

　東京電力福島第１原発事故以降、全町避難が続いている福島県双葉町で２７日、町役場新庁舎の開庁式が行われた。業務開始は９月５日からで、役場の本体機能が町内に戻るのは約１１年半ぶりとなる。
　午前１１時からの開庁式には、内堀雅雄県知事や秋葉賢也復興相、西村康稔経済産業相ら約８０人が出席。町のコーラス隊による「双葉町民の歌」が披露され、伊沢史朗町長は「職員一同が町の復興に向けより一層尽力し、（新庁舎が）多くの方々が交流できる町づくりの拠点になるよう努める」とあいさつした。
　新庁舎は、３０日に避難指示が解除される「特定復興再生拠点区域」（復興拠点）内の、ＪＲ常磐線双葉駅東側に建てられた。総事業費は約１４億６６００万円で、最長７５時間稼働する非常用電源なども整備した。（2022/08/27-12:07）

A ceremony was held in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday to mark the launch of its new town government building, ahead of the partial lifting in the town of the evacuation order related to the March 2011 severe nuclear accident.
   The municipal government is scheduled to start operations at the new building Sept. 5, marking the return of the main town office functions to Futaba about 11 and a half years after the triple meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
   The plant, which straddles Futaba and the neighboring Fukushima town of Okuma, was heavily damaged by the March 11, 2011, powerful earthquake and tsunami. The evacuation order currently covers the whole of Futaba.
   The ceremony, which started at 11 a.m. (2 a.m. GMT), was attended by some 80 people, including Fukushima Governor Masao Uchibori, Japanese reconstruction minister Kenya Akiba and industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura. A choir from the town sang "Futaba Chomin no Uta" (Song for Futaba Residents).
   "All town government staff will work harder to achieve the reconstruction of the town and make (the new town office building) a hub for community building where many people can interact," Futaba Mayor Shiro Izawa said in a speech.