Pupils enjoy reading books at refurbished library

IWAKI, Japan - Pupils enjoy reading books in a uniquely refurbished library at Yoshima Daiichi Elementary School in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 22, 2014. The refurbishment incorporated ideas proposed by pupils who experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster of 2011.

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