震災・原発事故の伝承館開館　福島

　東日本大震災と東京電力福島第１原発事故の記録や復興の歩みを後世に伝えるため、福島県が同県双葉町に整備した「東日本大震災・原子力災害伝承館」が２０日、開館した。初日は県内外から１０５１人が訪れた。
　高村昇館長はオープン前に並んだ人らを前に「未曽有の災害に福島がどう立ち向かって復興したかを知ってほしい。積極的に情報発信し、交流人口を増やして地域の活性化にもつなげたい」とあいさつした。
　整備に当たり約２４万点の資料を集め、そのうち壊れた郵便ポストなど約１７０点を展示。映像でも当時の様子などを説明し、災害を経験した語り部による講話も行う。（2020/09/20-18:22）

The northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima on Sunday opened a museum to pass down the generations the records of the March 2011 major earthquake and tsunami and the subsequent nuclear disaster.
   The Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum, located in the town of Futaba in the prefecture, also shows through its exhibitions people's efforts to rebuild their lives after the natural disaster and the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which straddles Futaba and the town of Okuma.
   "I hope visitors will come to know how Fukushima faced up to the unprecedented disaster and achieved reconstruction," Noboru Takamura, director of the museum, said in an address he gave before people who were lined up outside the museum ahead of its opening.
   The director also said, "By actively sending out information and inviting more people from outside the prefecture, the museum will hopefully contribute to the vitalization of this region."
   For opening the museum, the prefectural government collected some 240,000 items of disaster-related materials and selected about 170 items to be put on display, including a broken mailbox. Videos showing the scenes of the time and storytelling by those who experienced the disaster are also available at the museum.