Crisis-hit mayor among TIME's 100 most influential people

Crisis-hit mayor among TIME's 100 most influential people

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Katsunobu Sakurai, mayor of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture. TIME magazine on April 21, 2011, named the mayor, who used the video-sharing site YouTube to criticize the Japanese government's response to the nuclear accident near his city, in its list of this year's 100 most influential people in the world

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