Girl's dream to become designer lives on in handkerchiefs

IWAKI, Japan - Takashi Suzuki (R), father of Himeka who was killed at age 10 by the tsunami triggered by the March 2011 earthquake, takes a walk along the coast in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, together with one of her two younger brothers on July 10, 2013. In the back is the Shioyasaki lighthouse overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the subject of an award-winning painting by Himeka.

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