Rainy season arrives in tsunami-hit northeastern Japan

Rainy season arrives in tsunami-hit northeastern Japan

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Elementary schoolgirls walk home from school in the rain in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on June 21, 2011. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the same day that the rainy season has set in in the Tohoku region in northeastern Japan, the most severely devastated area in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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