Musical performance in place of sports festival

IWAKI, Japan - Kindergarten and junior high school students from Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, dance and sing along with U.S. volunteers from the Young Americans group on Sept. 14, 2014, in Iwaki in the same prefecture in an alternative to an annual sports festival. The children -- who live in temporary housing following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster -- are too few in number to hold the usual school athletic meet. (Kyodo)

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