Harvest moon in disaster-hit Iwate

Harvest moon in disaster-hit Iwate

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo taken on the evening of Sept. 12, 2011 shows a harvest moon in the sky above a pine tree near the coast of tsunami-hit Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. The pine tree was the only one of some 70,000 pine trees that formed a historic flood barrier to survive the March 11 disaster. It is now known as the ''miraculous lone pine tree.''

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