Tsunami-hit railway partially reopens

Tsunami-hit railway partially reopens

OFUNATO, Japan - Residents celebrate as a special train arrives at Yoshihama Station in Iwate Prefecture on the Minami Riasu Line on April 3, 2013, as the Sanriku Railway Co. line crippled by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster partially reopened for service. New carriages were bought with the help of the Kuwaiti government.

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