広島からの風 第2信 「平和への祈り」

　広島市の桜の開花予想は４月１日、みなさんの住むところではいかがでしょうか。
東日本大震災から１年、今月は各地でさまざまな集いが開かれたことでしょう。
私は３月１０日、１１日と福島県飯舘村から昨年夏前に広島に家族で移住されてきた方たちのお話を聞きました。放射線量の高い地域で人々は緊張を強いられ、毎日の生活がいかに不安なことかを深く知らされました。私は福島の放射線量が広島に比べてどれほど高いのか、文部科学省が毎日発表している放射線モニタリング情報（環境放射能水準調査結果）をもとに全国県庁所在地の大気中の環境放射線量を一年間に換算してみることにしました。
データは今年３月８日測定値（毎日新聞３月１１日朝刊掲載）です。
たとえば、この日は１時間当たり、福島市は１．１１５マイクロシーベルト、広島市は０．０８４マイクロシーベルト。この数値に２４時間と３６５日を乗じて算出した値を、ミリシーベルトにするために１０００で割りました。すると福島市は約９．７６ミリシーベルト、広島市は０．７３ミリシーベルトでした。単純な換算値ではありますが、一般人が１年間にさらされてよい人工放射線量の限度が１ミリシーベルトとされていますから、飯舘村から広島の来られた方々が感じていた不安、そして今も福島で生活を続けている市民の緊張と不安を想像せずにはおれません。みなさんも自分の住む町と福島市の数値を比較してみてはどうでしょうか。原発事故の影響を受けながら生活している方々の気持ちを想像したいと思います。

第１信で、２００１年９月１１日の後、毎週水曜日の夕べに原爆ドーム前で行われている市民による平和を願う祈り会のことをお伝えしました。今回は２月２９日の写真をどうぞご覧ください。この日はメンバーによる音楽演奏を聞きながら祈りを合わせました。
３月１９日、日本メノナイト宣教会の委員たちが広島市に集合、２０１２年の東日本大震災被災支援活動について話し合いました。このことについては後日委員長から詳細な報告が全国のメノナイト教会になされる予定ですし、ホームページでもお伝えすることになります。翌日３月２０日春分の日、筆者は委員三人を平和公園に案内いたしました。原爆ドームから始まって原爆の子の像他の平和公園内の碑（いしぶみ）の説明をさせていただきました。私たちは碑を訪ねながら、「核兵器を使用させてはならないことを、信仰に根ざして、一人でも多くの人に伝わるように、どのようにして語るか」、被爆者、被曝者、ヒバクシャと表記されるが「ヒバクシャとは何か。原発稼働中、点検中、事故により放射線にさらされる場合、ヒバクシャか」ということについて話し合いました。この問いをそれぞれに持ち帰ることになりました。
　ここまで読んでくださりありがとうございました。
　それでは次回第３信をお楽しみに。

Hiroshima Report No.2 "Prayer for Peace"
The cherry blossom forecast of Hiroshima is April 1, but for how would you do your places? It has been one after to East Japan Disaster, and I think they had various gathering or meeting is the district of Tohoku or the northeast of Japan and all in Japan too.

I heard a story of people who have been in the family moved to Hiroshima before last summer from Iidate Village, Fukushima Prefecture on March 10 and 11 this year. Listening to the story of the family, I was able to know the people living in the high radiation areas forced to tension and how hard their daily lives.

I decided to find out how high it is compared with that of the Hiroshima radiation and of Fukushima radiation for that. Then I have tried to make a year in terms of the amount of environmental radiation in the atmosphere of the prefectural capital nationwide radiation monitoring information based on the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan has published a daily basis level environmental radioactivity survey results.

This data is measurements on March 8 this year appeared March 11, morning newspaper Mainichi.
For example, on this day, per hour, 1.115 micro Sievert of Fukushima city, and 0.084 micro Sievert of Hiroshima city. I was assigned in 1000mrem Siebert value calculated by multiplying this number 24 hours and 365 days.
Fukushima was about 9.76mSv, the city of Hiroshima was 0.73mSv then. Although this is in terms of simple, given that limit the amount of man-made radiation the general public may be exposed to one year is 1mSv, continue to live in Fukushima and still, anxiety people who have been moved from the village Iidate feel they have not help but imagine the tension and anxiety of the people.

On this occasion, how do you try comparing the numerical value of Fukushima city and live in own your city? I would like to imagine the feeling of people living under the influence of nuclear power plant crisis.

In the first report, after the September 11, 2001, I mentioned that the desire for peace by citizens of Prayer has been held in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in every Wednesday evening.
〔See the above photo of February 29 this time, we prayed together while listening to music performance by members on this day. 〕

On March 19, we members of Japan Mennonite Fellowship (JMF) is set to Hiroshima, we talked about the relief assistance activities of East Japan Disaster in 2012. It is expected about this detailed report is made to the Mennonite church and BIC Japan church nationwide from JMF chairman at a later date, you also mention our web site.

The day of the vernal equinox on March 20 the next day, I guided to the Hiroshima Peace Park JMF three committee members. Starting from Atom Bomb Dome, I was allowed a description of the Child's Peace monument and other monuments in the Peace Park.

We talked about not anybody using the nuclear weapons, and how do we have to tell as many people to think of ourselves rooted in the faith while visiting the monuments. And we also talk about it called "hibakusha" in the case of nuclear power plants in operation,
during inspections, be exposed to radiation by the accident as"hibakusha" notation is also to be, something in three words inJapanese.
※We use two different Kanji or Chinese character and Katakana the word "hibakusha" in Japanese. Hibakusha literally translates "explosion – affected people". The "hibakusha" will be expressed two words in Japanese. One is a person who has received a direct attack on a nuclear bomb. Another is a person is not received the direct damage, but exposed to residual radioactivity associated with the nuclear explosion.

We have now to bring back to each of these questions. Thank you very much for reading so far. So enjoy the trust to No.3 Hiroshima Report.

(Written by Tadayuki Ishiya of Hiroshima Mennonite church pastor)
(Translated by Takanori Sasaki of JMF chair)