(くまもとけん)

Kumamoto Prefecture

(ひかわちょう)

Hikawa Town (Kumamoto)

(ぼらんてぃあ)

volunteer

(けんこう)

health, healthy

(ちぇっく)

check

(おおあめ)

heavy rain

(あと)

remaining; left; more

(たくさん)

a lot / many

(ひと)

person / people

(まだ)

still; yet

(いえ)

house

(かえる)

to return home

(まち)

town

(たいいくかん)

gymnasium

(など)

et cetera, and so on

(ひなん)

evacuation

(せいかつ)

daily life; livelihood

(つづける)

to continue

(あつい)

hot

(ひ)

day

(つづく)

to continue

(からだ)

body

(わるい)

bad

(する)

to do

(しんぱい)

worry / concern

(たち)

plural suffix (for people)

(くる)

to come

(かんごし)

nurse

(だいがくせい)

university student

(けつあつ)

blood pressure

(はかる)

to measure

(ちょうし)

condition, state

(きく)

to listen, hear

(みず)

water

(のむ)

to drink

(つたえる)

to convey / to tell

(さい)

years old

(じょせい)

woman

(しる)

to know, learn

(ばしょ)

place

(ねる)

to sleep

(よく)

often, well, frequently

(ねむる)

to sleep, to hibernate

(はなし)

talk, story

(すこし)

a little

(あんしん)

relief / peace of mind

(はなす)

to speak, talk

(これから)

from now on

(いっしょ)

Together; at the same time

(みんな)

Everyone; everybody

(まもる)

to protect

(いう)

to say

can do ..., to be able to ...

Verb dictionary form + ことができる expresses ability or possibility. More formal than the potential verb form. Common in written Japanese and announcements.

is doing, has been doing (ongoing state/action)

Expresses a continuing action or resulting state. Formed with て-form + いる. Can describe an action in progress or a state resulting from a past change.

because ~ / since ~

Causal connector. Because JA is buying at higher prices, store prices will also rise.

passive form of する-verbs

検討されています is the passive of 検討する - the proposal is being examined, with no explicit agent.

did ... (polite past)

Polite past tense of verbs. Formed with verb stem + ました. Used in formal or polite speech to describe completed actions.

doing things like ~ and ~

Lists representative actions among several. Implies there are other actions too. Used twice in this article.

to tell someone to do

Used to report that the city office told residents to evacuate quickly (早く避難するように伝えました).

negative form: does not ~, will not ~

The plain negative 出ない in the headline and the polite negative 出ません in the article both say that Ohtani will not appear in the game.

does not ~ (polite negative)

ません is the polite negative form of verbs. It negates the action in a formal/polite context.

have someone do (for me)

Expresses receiving a favor/action from someone.

want to ~

Verb stem + たい to express desire.

熊本県氷川町　ボランティアが健康をチェック

Hikawa Town, Kumamoto Prefecture: Volunteers check people's health

熊本県の氷川町では、大雨のあとで、たくさんの人がまだ家に帰ることができません。

In Hikawa Town, Kumamoto Prefecture, after the heavy rain many people still cannot return home.

町の体育館などで避難の生活を続けています。

They are continuing to live as evacuees in places such as the town gymnasium.

暑い日が続いているので、体を悪くする人が心配されています。

Because hot days are continuing, there is concern that people will become ill.

この町に、ボランティアの人たちが来ました。

Volunteers came to this town.

ボランティアは、看護師や大学生です。

The volunteers are nurses and university students.

避難している人の血圧を測ったり、体の調子を聞いたりしました。

They measured the blood pressure of the evacuees and asked how they were feeling.

水をたくさん飲むように伝えました。

They told them to drink plenty of water.

80歳の女性は「知らない場所で寝るので、よく眠れません。

An 80-year-old woman said, "Because I sleep in an unfamiliar place, I can't sleep well.

話を聞いてもらって、少し安心しました」と話しました。

Having someone listen to me made me feel a little more at ease," she said.

町は、これからもボランティアと一緒に、みんなの健康を守りたいと言っています。

The town says it wants to keep working with volunteers to protect everyone's health.