双葉町を聖火リレーのルートに追加へ　福島

　福島県は２３日、東京電力福島第１原発事故の避難指示が３月に一部地域で解除される双葉町を、東京五輪の聖火リレーのルートに追加する方針を決めた。全体の出発日となる３月２６日に組み込まれ、同１４日に全線で運転再開するＪＲ常磐線の双葉駅周辺を聖火が通る。
　双葉町は第１原発が立地し、事故の被災地で唯一全町避難が続いている。内堀雅雄知事は「復興五輪にふさわしく、国内外に福島の今を発信していく上で大きな意義がある」と話した。（2020/01/23-11:47）

The Fukushima prefectural government decided Thursday to add a host town of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to the list of municipalities that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic torch relay will visit.
   Torch bearers will run in the town of Futaba, one of the municipalities hosting Tokyo Electric Power Company Holding Inc.'s plant, the site of the 2011 nuclear disaster, on March 26, when the Japanese leg of the torch relay starts in the northeastern Japan prefecture.
   On March 4, Japan will lift the evacuation order in part of Futaba that had been in place since the disaster. Torch runners will pass by Futaba Station on East Japan Railway Co.'s Joban Line, which will be fully reopened March 14.
   Futaba is the only municipality where the evacuation order fully remains in place.
   The inclusion of Futaba in the relay route is "apt" for the 2020 Games, dubbed as the Reconstruction Olympics, and "highly significant" for efforts to spread information on the current situation of Fukushima Prefecture to other parts of Japan and overseas, Fukushima Governor Masao Uchibori said.