Moai statue from Chile for disaster-hit Tohoku town

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Photo shows a stone replica of a Moai human figure during a ceremony in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 25, 2013, where it was placed on May 16. Chile sent the replica of an Easter Island statue as a present to the northeastern Japan town hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

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