Junior high schoolers from disaster-hit areas hold summit

Junior high schoolers from disaster-hit areas hold summit

KOBE, Japan - Two students (far R) of Yotsukura junior high school from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, talks about the degree of recovery from the 2011 earthquake that hit northeastern Japan during a "summit of junior high school students in disaster-stricken areas" in Kobe, western Japan, on Aug. 19, 2014. The gathering was joined by 13 schools from six prefectures, including Nagasaki where pyroclastic flows from Mt. Unzen killed scores of people in 1991.

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