Czech photographer aims to help tsunami orphans

Czech photographer aims to help tsunami orphans

TOKYO, Japan - Photo, taken on Aug. 12, 2011 in Tokyo, shows Czech photographer Martin Hladik explaining one of his photographs. The image displays two children in disaster-hit Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, picking up a bone by chopsticks after cremation of their deceased mother in a typical Japanese ceremony to place it into a funeral urn. (Kyodo)

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