東日本大震災から早くも4年の歳月が経ってしまいました。依然復興には程遠く、東京電力福島第一原子力発電所はたくさんの方々の事故処理にもかかわらず収束の見通しが立たない状態です。
一方で、このことを忘れるほどにいろんなことが起きました。人々の気持ちも様々なことに対処できず、ひとつの方向に向いてしまう危うさも感じられます。福島そして沖縄が抱える問題は日本全体で考える問題です。今何がおき、どこに向かっているのか、立ち止まって考えることも必要かと思います。
このみんなちがってみんないいのイベントは、お互いのちがいを認めあい尊重して、楽しく生きていくことのきっかけになればということではじまりました。
今回で8回目(通算23回)目、皆さんと楽しく川原で過ごしましょう。
2015年 3月吉日 実行委員長 保高泰一
Since the Great Tohoku Earthquake, four years have already passed. A full recovery from it still looks very far. At the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant owned by the Tokyo Electric Power Company, even to this day, much efforts made by many people never seem to be enough to end the disaster.
At the same time, we seem to forget about the disaster due to a variety of other things that have happened since then. People seem to be too overwhelmed to properly deal with these many things, and we are also concerned about their potential inclination to totalitarianism.
Japanese as a whole must contemplate the ongoing problems in Fukushima and Okinawa. It may be necessary to stop and think what is going on and where we are going now.
We started this event “We’re different & that’s great” in the hope of inspiring people to respect each other’s differences and live joyously.
This is our eighth time (23rd since its precursor), and we very much look forward to having a great time together by the river.
Chairman of the Committee, Hotaka Taichi