Lanterns lined up in disaster-hit Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - People pray for the March 11 disaster victims in front of lanterns during the annual lantern floating event in Fukushima on Aug. 17, 2011. Usually people release lanterns into a river at the summer event but the practice was withheld this year over fears of radiation contamination of the river in the wake of the nuclear plant accident. (Kyodo)

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