Street signs in Hiroshima

Street signs in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A man adds the name in English of a street in Hiroshima on Jan. 29, 2014. Japan's infrastructure ministry started work that day in Hiroshima to replace signs with Japanese street names written in Roman letters with ones with the names written in English, as part of efforts to make signs across Japan easier to understand for foreign visitors.

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