1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 23, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R). In the photos is the so-called ''miracle pine,'' the only tree that survived the disaster in the area though it withered later.

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