Public schools resume classes in quake-hit Kumamoto

Public schools resume classes in quake-hit Kumamoto

Students of a junior high school, whose building was heavily damaged by a massive earthquake, hug each other as their school resumes classes by sharing an elementary school building in Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 9, 2016, nearly a month after the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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