U.S. students visit tsunami-hit city

U.S. students visit tsunami-hit city

OFUNATO, Japan - A student (L) from Del Norte High School in Crescent City, California, and a student from Takata High School in Japan's Iwate Prefecture, eat "hittsumi," a soup dish representative of the local cuisine, that they made together at the Japanese school's temporary facility in Ofunato, Iwate, on Feb. 18, 2014. A group of high school students from northern California visited their peers in the tsunami-hit northeastern Japanese city after helping return to the Japanese high school a boat that was washed across the Pacific Ocean after the March 2011 earthquake.

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