SOS message on ground in quake-hit southwestern Japan

SOS message on ground in quake-hit southwestern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an "SOS," surrounded with Japanese words meaning (from L top to bottom in clock rotation) "paper, bread, water, Kokufu," depicted by lining up chairs on the ground of Kumamoto Kokufu High School in the southwestern Japanese city of Kumamoto, on April 17, 2016, after magnitude-6.5 and M7.3 quakes struck the area in a space of just 28 hours. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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