Disaster area kids invited for cruise

Disaster area kids invited for cruise

IWAKI, Japan - Nursery school children in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, feed seagulls aboard a sightseeing ship in the sea off the city on April 25, 2012. They were invited on a tour on the day that the vessel, which operates from a port in the city, resumed regular cruises for the first time since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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