Giant coastal levee in response to quake-tsunami in Japan

Giant coastal levee in response to quake-tsunami in Japan

Photo taken Nov. 8, 2015 shows women performing in a traditional "yosakoi" dance festival in front of a coastal levee under construction in the northeastern Japan city of Iwaki. It is a part of a 400-kilometer-long levee system that Japan is building along its northeastern coast, the area affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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