Whale facility reopens in northeastern Japan

Whale facility reopens in northeastern Japan

Visitors look at a sperm whale skeleton at Whale Town Oshika in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 22, 2020. The facility, also housing restaurants and souvenir shops, reopened the same day for the first time since being devastated in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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