Half year after disaster

Half year after disaster

KESENNUMA, Japan - A police officer holds flowers at a site where a house was swept away by a tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, in picture taken on Sept. 11, 2011, the six-month anniversary of the March 11 quake and tsunami. The disaster killed more than 15,700 people, while 4,000 remain missing, mainly in northeastern Japan.

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