東日本大震災の津波で職員と住民43人が犠牲になった宮城県南三陸町の旧防災対策庁舎。「見るのもつらい」という遺族感情と、災害の教訓として保存を求める声との間で揺れていた南三陸町は、震災から13年を前に、2024年3月1日、震災遺構として保存する方針を発表した。庁舎がある「南三陸震災復興祈念公園」、隣接する伝承施設「南三陸311メモリアル」は、震災の記録と記憶、防災の大切さを後世に伝えていく。
The former disaster prevention office building in Minamisanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture, where 43 employees and residents were killed in the tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake. The town was torn between the feelings of the bereaved families that it was "painful to even look at" and the calls to preserve it as a lesson from the disaster, and on March 1, 2024, 13 years before the disaster, it announced its intention to preserve it as a disaster relic. The Minamisanriku Earthquake Disaster Reconstruction Memorial Park, where the office building is located, and the adjacent Minamisanriku 311 Memorial, a heritage facility, will pass on the records and memories of the earthquake and the importance of disaster prevention to future generations.