Beach reopens in disaster-hit northeastern Japan

A mother and her child play on a beach near uninhabited Oshima Island in the Iwate Prefecture town of Yamada, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 1, 2020. The beach reopened the same day for the first time since the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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