Burning monks' footware at disaster area

Burning monks' footware at disaster area

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Survivors burn wooden footware (front) provided by a temple to warm them in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 27, 2011. The area was hit hard by the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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