Global leaders visit Sendai disaster-hit areas

Global leaders visit Sendai disaster-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - (From R, front) International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and Japanese Finance Minister Koriki Jojima stand on the rooftop of an elementary school that survived destruction in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Arahama coastal district of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 10, 2012, during their visit to sites in disaster-hit areas.

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