あれから２年 (After 2 Years)

3月8日 Wall Street Journal の朝刊一面に日本の記事。
タイトルは、 "Sluggish Tsunami Recovery Pits Rules Against Reason"
(津波からの復興は、理由よりも、行政の規制に阻まれている）
陸前高田市の復興の様子を伝えている。
一生懸命、生活を取り戻そうとがんばっている地元の人々。
それに対し、資金は集まったのに、いっこうに進まない街の復興。
なぜ？
行政の層の複雑さ、規則の多さ・・・なんとか、ならないものだろうか？

March 8, an article about Japan, titled
"Sluggish Tsunami Recovery Pits Rules Against Reason," appears on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
The article tells about the recovering situation in Rikuzentakata.
People living there do their best as possible to recover their life including re-starting their own businesses. However, while they earned their budget, re-construction of the town is really slow.
Why?
The reason is that the rules of government are getting in the way of re-constructions.
Mumumu...
I wish the government policies and the many bureaucratic layers have more flexibility to match common sense.

この記事を読み終わって数日の今。
もっとも、心に響いていることは、
そこに生活している人々。
前向きにがんばっている姿。
「すごいな。」の言葉しか、正直見つからない今の私だ。

A couple days passed after reading it.
While the article tells about organization's problems,
my heart has been touched by people who live there and who are forward- looking.
I am trying to express my feeling, but I cannot find the words to do it.
Only be I able to say "Heroic."

+++++ この記事の内容をビデオで見る事も可能。+++++
" Two Years After Japan's Tsunami, Rikuzentakata in Northeastern Japan Still Struggles - WSJ.com"
http://live.wsj.com/video/two-years-after-tsunami-still-waiting-to-rebuild/AC19A6B2-267A-49A3-BACF-9D45EA677004.html

+++++ You can also see the video of this article as below. +++++
http://live.wsj.com/video/two-years-after-tsunami-still-waiting-to-rebuild/AC19A6B2-267A-49A3-BACF-9D45EA677004.html

++++++ Reference ++++++
Wakabayashi, Daisuke, "Sluggish Tsunami Recovery Pits Rules Against Reason"
The Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2012, A1 & A12