Meeting on tsunami tragedy at school

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A woman heads to an elementary school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 22, 2012, to attend a meeting held by the local education board to explain the events of the March 2011 tsunami to parents of pupils at Okawa Elementary School, where 74 of the 108 students and 10 of the 13 teachers died or went missing.

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