Fukushima nun bakes over 2,600 mud Buddhas for missing

Fukushima nun bakes over 2,600 mud Buddhas for missing

IWAKI, Japan - Koshu Hirao (back), a Buddhist nun in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, shows on Aug. 9, 2014, some of the more than 2,600 mud Buddha figures she baked in memory of persons missing in the 2011 earthquake disaster that hit northeastern Japan.

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