Visitors to huge belt conveyor get sunflower seeds

Visitors to huge belt conveyor get sunflower seeds

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - A tourist association in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, offers bottles of sunflower seeds, as shown in this file photo taken on Nov. 11, 2014, to participants in a tour of a huge belt conveyor seen as a symbol of reconstruction work from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Association officials hope visitors will remember the city when sunflowers bloom in early summer. (Kyodo)

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