Chilean president visits Minamisanriku

Chilean president visits Minamisanriku

SENDAI, Japan - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and his wife Cecilia Morel stand near the head from a replica of Easter Island's Moai statue, outside Shizugawa High School in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 30, 2012. The replica of the famous statue on the island, a Chilean territory, was donated to the town in 1991 by Chile as a symbol of the town's recovery from damage caused by a tsunami triggered by an earthquake in Chile in 1960. The replica was damaged by the March 2011 tsunami.

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