Hiroshima mayor shows fan made of recycled paper cranes

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (2nd from R) poses with a fan made of recycled paper cranes sent to the western Japan city on July 28, 2015. Some 700 fans will be distributed to guests at an Aug. 6 memorial service for victims of the city's 1945 atomic bombing. President Shoichiro Hirao of Nisseysangyo Co., which reproduced paper cranes as pulp, is on the far left. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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