Letters from Kobe

Letters from Kobe

ONAGAWA, Japan - Photo taken March 22, 2011, shows an encouragement letter from a fifth-grader at Yamada Elementary School in Kobe, western Japan, to students at Onagawa Daini Elementary School in the town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. A wide area of northeastern and eastern Japan was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, while Kobe was also devastated by a catastrophic earthquake on Jan. 17, 1995.

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