東日本大震災の被災地の復興の現状を実地で見学し、現地の被災者との交流をすることを通じて、震災がわれわれ日本人・日本社会に残した影響を知り、未来について学生たちに考えてもらうための現地視察旅行を2回行った。
1回目は2018年8月6日から8日に宮城県石巻市・女川町に13人の学生(文学部8人、経済学部2人、大学院2人、女子高生1人と教員3人、また2019年2月6日・7日に福島県楢葉町・双葉町に9人の学生(文学部7人、経済学部1人、総合政策学部1人)と教員3人の参加を得た。
石巻・女川では2013年以来、被災体験と復興の過程について現地の漁師の方に語っても石巻専修大学の復興ボランティア学のワークショップに参加、ならびに石巻に震災後に立ち上がったIT関連企業の訪問もした。
楢葉町では楢葉北小学校を訪問し、児童・教諭との交流を行うとともに、福島第一原子力発電所とその関連施設を東京電力社員の案内で見学、あわせて帰宅困難区域である大熊町の様子も垣間見ることができた。
いずれも慶應義塾大学三田キャンパスからチャーターバスで往復、現地では地元の漁師の経営する民宿や復興作業に従事する作業員も宿泊するホテルを利用し、現地の様子を間近に見る機会を得た。
さらに石巻の漁師の家屋が2月をもって解体されるため、その映像記録撮影のため2月17日から23日まで東京藝大で記録映画を製作している山田健二氏にわれわれとともに現地に滞在してもらい、また2月17日・18日に本塾書道会部員・永井万結君による漁師ゆかりの書の贈呈を行った。
この事業は次年度文学部に設置される予定の講座に引き継がれることになっており、その重要なキックオフとなったといえよう。
Two fact-finding tours were conducted for the students and faculty members of Keio to see the aftermath and reconstruction of the Great East Japan Earthquake and to interact directly with the on-site victims.
The first visit site were Ishinomaki city and Onagawa town in Miyagi Prefecture on August 6, 7, 8th in 2018 with thirteen students (eight of Faculty of Letters, two Economics, two graduate students and one of the Girls Sinior High School) and three faculty members. In this visit a fisherman who has been keeping a long friendship with our faculty introduced the change of on-site situations and talked his recent private experience. We observed his remaining house destroyed by tsumani, the ruins of Ookawa Elementary School, and the local hospital of Onagawa. We also participated in a workshop of the Reconstruction and Volunteer Study in Ishinomaki Senshu University.
The second visit sites were Naraha town and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) in Fukushima prefecture on 6th and 7th of February in 2019 with nine students (seven Faculty of Letters, one Econimics and one Shonan Fujisawa Campus)and three faculty members. We visited Naraha Kita Elementary School and communicated with its pupils and teachers. We also visited FDNPS and its related facilies accompanied with staffs of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc (TEPCO) as well as its neighborhood Ookuma town where no residents can return yet.
Those two visiting tours were conducted by bus chartered from Mita campus. The participants stayed in a local inn run by a fisherman's family and in a hotel where workers for reconstruction stayed to have opportunities to see the local situation directly.
Because Ishinomaki fisherman's house would be demolished by the end of February in 2019, we asked a video recording of its process to Kenji Yamada, a visual artist of the Tokyo Geidai, who stayed with us in the middle of February. A student, Mayu Nagai who draw a calligraphy for a fisherman, also visited ishinomaki and presented her work to the fisherman.
This years activities was a good kick-off preparation for the related educational course set in Faculty of Letters next year.