Fukushima beach kicks off sea-bathing season

Fukushima beach kicks off sea-bathing season

IWAKI, Japan - Local tour guides frolic in the water at the Nakoso swimming beach, one of two beaches open to bathers in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in a ceremony marking the formal start of the sea-bathing season on July 20, 2014.

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