Cartoon depicts Japan's worst nuclear accident

Cartoon depicts Japan's worst nuclear accident

HIROSHIMA, Japan - About 270 cartoons and illustrations from 35 countries including the United States and Russia are contributed to an antinuclear cartoon exhibition, which opened Oct. 9 in the western Japan city of Hiroshima for a 12-day session. A cartoon, submitted by a Japanese cartoonist Keiichi Makino, depicts a Sept. 30 nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing plant in Tokaimura, some 120 kilometers northeast of Tokyo.

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