GSDF members leave disaster-hit Rikuzentakata

GSDF members leave disaster-hit Rikuzentakata

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Ground Self-Defense Force members pose with children and thank-you messages from them in quake- and tsunami-hit Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on July 20, 2011. The GSDF left the city the same day after completing its relief mission. (Kyodo)

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