20 years after fatal volcanic disaster

20 years after fatal volcanic disaster

SHIMABARA, Japan - Shimabara Mayor Shuichiro Yokota (front L) offers flowers at a cenotaph during a ceremony in Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, on June 3, 2011, to commemorate the 43 victims of a huge pyroclastic flow from Fugen Peak of Mt. Unzen on the 20th anniversary of the disaster. (Kyodo)

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