"Mago Tachi Ha Kaeranai" Credo Ushinawareta "Furusato" Wo Motomete (Soredemo "Furusato")

[Machine Translation] The grandmothers live in temporary housing in Date City, about an hour's drive down the mountain from Iitate Village, a highland village in northeastern Fukushima Prefecture, richly blessed by nature. They were forced to leave their hometown village due to radiation. In the village, several generations lived on a large plot of land, but here, about 100 temporary houses stand side by side on a plot about the size of one house in the village. In the tenement-style houses, the rooms are separated only by boards, and there are complaints that the TV is too noisy. However, as we became accustomed to life in the temporary housing, we formed friendships with our neighbors and made friends, and this has become our "second hometown. On the other hand, I also feel a longing to return to the "village I want to go back to," a village that was blessed with nature's bounty, such as wild vegetables in the spring, mushrooms in the fall, and miso paste that kept me alive all year round. Six years after the evacuation, the evacuation order has been lifted, and the day of moving out of temporary housing is approaching. The grandmothers are now torn between "two hometowns.

自然の恵みゆたかな、福島県北東部の高原の村―飯舘村から車で1時間ほど山を下った伊達市にある仮設住宅に、おばあちゃんたちは暮らしています。放射能にふるさとの村を追われたのです。村では広い敷地に何世代も住んでいましたが、ここは村の1軒分ほどの敷地に、約100軒もの仮設住宅が建ち並んでいます。長屋形式で、板で仕切っただけの部屋では、「テレビの音がうるさい」といった不満も...。でも、仮設住宅の暮らしに慣れるにつれて、近所付き合いも生まれ、友だちもでき、ここは「第二のふるさと」になってきました。その一方で、春の山菜や秋のキノコ、一年中、いのちをつないでくれた味噌など、自然の恵みに生かされた村、「帰りたい村」への思いもつのります。そして、避難から6年、避難指示は解除され、仮設住宅から出ていく日が近づいています。おばあちゃんたちは、いま、「二つのふるさと」の間でゆれています。