Can't wait to enter elementary school

IWAKI, Japan - A girl, who will enter elementary school at the start of the new academic year in early April 2011, wears the backpack she will use for school on April 1 in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that has been heavily affected by radiation leaks from a local nuclear power plant. According to the Iwaki municipal board of education, it is receiving nearly 100 inquiries each day from worried parents asking if it is safe for their children to go to school and be exposed to the air. (Kyodo)

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