Japan mourns on 1 month anniv.

Japan mourns on 1 month anniv.

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A woman who lost her child in tsunami watches members of the Self-Defense Forces search for victims on the second floor of Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 11, 2011, a month after the disaster. About 70 percent of the 108 pupils of the school were killed or remained unaccounted for.

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