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The choir is formed by various schools of Okuma Town of Fukushima, many places now being difficult-to-return zone. In mid August, Sho-san visited one school and this plan came up. When Sho-san asked the students what “furusato” (hometown) means to them, a student asked “I think about where is my hometown, whether it’s my local (Fukushima) or the place I am on evacuation now.”
Sho-san interviewed the high school students. Please refer to Winkychan’s sub earlier about this: 17.08.21 NZ http://arashitranslation.dreamwidth.org/98461.html. Sho-san asked another student what remains in his memory, he said that he thought he remembered, but actually he forgot (about his hometown). When they were on evacuation they were just primary school grade three students.
One student Koki-kun planned to return to his home in Okuma for a temporary period to take a visit. His elder brother and mother accompanied him for the visit.
According to a survey to residents of Okuma Town, 63.5% will not return to Okuma, 11.4% want to return, 17.3% not decided, 7.8% not yet decided.
Sho-san went to Okuma four years ago, he visited the library (also shown in 17.08.21 NZ) and saw the miserable scenery of a place with human’s temperature. When Koki-kun and his family went back to Okuma Town, they saw things broken, they saw the current scenery of Okuma, Koki-kun’s mother said it’s lonely, Koki-kun said things changed, and it was out of his expectation, and he felt uneasy.
On the other hand, Sho-san visited the “Old man team” who formed in 2013 with a hope to work on Okuma so that people will come back one day (reported in 17.08.21 NZ). Suzuki-san said that there are more and more people not planning to come back to Okuma, they made a board on the green slope with the words “Let’s Come Back”.
Sakurai-san interviewed another student Okada-kun, who evacuated to a place outside Fukushima. There she was discriminated and bullied with the stigma of radioactivity. She did not tell this to her mother because her mother was having a tough time taking care of her younger brother. She managed to declare this past incident because she returned to Fukushima which welcomed her.
The programme proceeded to Koki-kun’s family returning to their house in Okuma. When they reached the house they thought the house was small, actually it was because they grew up. The brothers found the old things, toys, they felt nostalgic.
The brothers took photos everywhere, and they asked if they can walk on the road, then they ran on the road. Their mother said “though they grow so big now they look like little kids.”
There was coverage on Aida couple who continued planting sakura in Okuma, and on Ishii-san who runs a dining hall in a village once the evacuation order there was lifted.
Then they performed "Furusato" in Budoukan.
After the performance, Sho-san commented that not only Fukushima, many people think about where their hometown is, it is good to have such a time for people to think of their hometown. Koki-kun said that he was glad to be able to express his gratitude towards the people working hard in Fukushima via the singing. Takahashi-san (another student) said that though some may think Fukushima is dangerous, they have tried to convey to people that Fukushima is a splendid place.
Aida-san who came to Budokan to watch the performance commented that the current return rate is only around 5%, in the future it would be a big challenge to make a goal of people coming back.
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Date: 2017-08-29 03:27 pm (UTC)