Youths from disaster-hit Iwate invited to Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - Naoya Niisato (2nd from L in front), a third-year student of Kamaishi Junior High School in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, speaks at the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow on Aug. 17, 2011. Twenty-eight members of kendo swordsmanship clubs at a junior high school and a university in disaster-hit Iwate Prefecture paid a courtesy visit to the ministry during their trip to Moscow and Krasnoyarsk from Aug. 16 to 22. The trip was realized after an invitation was issued after a proposal by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's wife, Svetlana. (Kyodo)

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