3 years since quake-tsunami disasters

3 years since quake-tsunami disasters

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo taken in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on the morning of March 11, 2014, the third anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, shows a woman praying at the site where the residence of her male acquaintance used to stand before it was swept away in the tsunami. The man was killed in the disaster.

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