High schooler explains tsunami monument in northern Japan town

Shu Yamashita, a 16-year-old high school sophomore, explains on July 19, 2015, about the seventh stone monument in the Nonohama district of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, built by graduates of the northeastern Japan town's sole public junior high school to remember victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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