Tree-planting drive in tsunami-hit Miyagi spawns hope for fresh greenery

People carry a "mikoshi" portable shrine during a summer festival at Chokaishio Shrine in Watari, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 7, 2015. In the foreground are trees planted two years earlier under a movement to bring back greenery to the northern Japanese prefecture ravaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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