Tsunami-hit school building sought to be kept as 'relic'

Tsunami-hit school building sought to be kept as 'relic'

SENDAI, Japan - High school student Sonomi Sato appeals for the preservation of the damaged building of Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, as an earthquake relic at a gathering in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2014. Sato's younger sister Mizuho, killed in the March 2011 tsunami, was a student at the elementary school. (Kyodo)

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