Signboard washed away by 2011 tsunami returns to village

Signboard washed away by 2011 tsunami returns to village

MORIOKA, Japan - An official in Tanohata village, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, touches a signboard of a village-operated housing complex, washed away by the tsunami of March 2011, as it is returned from Oahu in the U.S. state of Hawaii on July 30, 2014.

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