New Year's Eve in disaster area

MINAMISOMA, Japan - A paper lantern in the form of Catbus, a character from the animation film My Neighbor Totoro, is illuminated in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on the New Year's Eve on Dec. 31, 2012. The destination board on the bus reads "Odaka," an area in Minamisoma that was made a no-go zone due to the nuclear accident that followed the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

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