Planting cherry trees as tsunami caution

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Takumi Hashizume, representative of the cherry tree-planting project ''Sakura Line 311'' in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, stands on March 2, 2012, by a cherry tree planted last November. Hashizume and other project members aim to plant about 17,000 trees along a 170-kilometer line through the coastal city marking the furthest inland points reached by the tsunami, to warn future generations about a repeat of the catastrophe. (Kyodo)

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