Disaster-hit city marks 50th anniv. with "aloha assembly"

Disaster-hit city marks 50th anniv. with "aloha assembly"

Members of the Iwaki city assembly in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima attend a special "aloha" session on June 9, 2016, wearing Hawaiian shirts, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the city hit hard by the 2011 killer tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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