St. Valentine's Day chocolates

St. Valentine's Day chocolates

MIYAKO, Japan - A women hands chocolate to passengers at Sanriku Railway Co.'s Miyako Station in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 14, 2012. Confectionery shop ''Amla-an'' in Hiroshima Prefecture hosted the St. Valentine's Day event to hand some 300 chocolates to passengers and station employees to do some cheerleading for the local railway. Operations on about two-thirds of the railroad along the Pacific are still suspended as stations and rails were swept away by the March 2011 tsunami. (Kyodo)

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  • ILEA000340639
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  • 2012/2/14 00:00:00
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  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
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