Bringing fire to Tohoku

Bringing fire to Tohoku

IWAKI, Japan - Buddhist monks walk along Nakoso Beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, as they brought fire taken from a monument in Hyogo Prefecture to commemorate the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake to the northeastern Japanese city hit by the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami. The fire will be used for events to mark the first anniversary of the disaster.

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