Fukushima primary school holds outdoor sports meet

Fukushima primary school holds outdoor sports meet

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Pupils, most of them wearing surgical masks, at Mikawadai elementary school in Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, compete in a race during an athletic meet on May 12, 2012. Some public primary schools in the city held outdoors athletic meets the same day, a year after two-thirds of schools canceled outdoor events for fear of radiation following the catastrophic accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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