National high school hula competition held in Fukushima

National high school hula competition held in Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - Students from Nihon Newart High School in Kokubunji, western Tokyo, perform at a national high school hula dance competition in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 24, 2014. The school won the best performance prize at the event, held to encourage people still trying to recover from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters.

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