Japan eyes tsunami summit of global high school students

Japan eyes tsunami summit of global high school students

Toshihiro Nikai, chairman of the General Council of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, addresses a meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 29, 2016, to commemorate the designation of Nov. 5 as World Tsunami Awareness Day. Nikai said Japan is planning to hold a summit of high school students from around the world to discuss lessons learned from the 2011 tsunami and earthquake disaster that damaged the northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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