遺族ら、御嶽山頂で追悼　噴火１０年前に慰霊登山―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）噴火から９月で１０年となるのを前に、遺族らでつくる「山びこの会」は２８日、慰霊登山を行った。８組１３人が参加し、山頂の剣ケ峰で発生時刻の午前１１時５２分に合わせて黙とうをささげた。
　遺族らは頂上で献花した後、シャボン玉を飛ばして犠牲者を追悼した。慰霊登山は２０１６年から毎年行われ、今回で９回目。
　長男の英樹さん＝当時（３７）＝を亡くした堀口純一さん（７７）＝岡山県赤磐市＝は、持参したウイスキーを山頂からまいて供養した。「頭の中は息子のことばかり」と１０年を振り返った。
　松井登輝也さん（２７）＝神戸市＝は初めて御嶽山に登った。父の貞憲さん＝当時（４７）＝を亡くした当時はこの山が嫌いだったが、「父の最期の場所に行きたい」とこの１０年で気持ちが変化した。「（父と）一緒に居たかったと思うからこそ、周りの人に同じ思いになってほしくない」と涙を浮かべながら話した。（2024/07/28-15:58）

A group of families of victims of the 2014 Mount Ontake eruption climbed the 3,067-meter mountain, which straddles Nagano and Gifu prefectures in central Japan, ahead of the 10th anniversary in September of the eruption, which left 58 people dead and five missing.
   Thirteen people took part in Sunday's memorial climb. At the Kengamine peak, they observed a moment of silence at 11:52 a.m., the same time the eruption occurred on Sept. 27, 2014. They also laid flowers and made soap bubbles to mourn for the victims.
   The memorial climb has been conducted every year since 2016, and Sunday's marked the ninth such event.
   Junichi Horiguchi, 77, who lost his oldest son, then 37, sprinkled whisky from the summit. "My mind has been full of my son" for the past 10 years, said Hoiguchi, who is from the city of Akaiwa, Okayama Prefecture, western Japan.
   Tokiya Matsui, 27, who is from the western city of Kobe, hated the mountain when he lost his father, then 47, but he climbed it for the first time on the day. His mind has changed over the past 10 years. "I came to think that I wanted to go to the place where my father died," Matsui said.