Snow-related deaths across Japan reach 51

Snow-related deaths across Japan reach 51

IIYAMA, Japan - Children walk home from elementary school on a street flanked by walls of snow in Iiyama, Nagano Prefecture, on Jan. 31, 2012. Fifty-one people had died in Japan in incidents related to heavy snow as of 5 p.m. the same day, mostly while engaged in attempts to remove it, government statistics showed.

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