Elementary school soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show Okawa Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 22, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same school on March 3, 2012 (bottom), when people offer prayers there. At the school, 74 of the 108 students and 10 of the 13 teachers died or went missing in the disaster.

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