Kids enjoy play at nuke disaster-hit Fukushima park

Kids enjoy play at nuke disaster-hit Fukushima park

HIRONO, Japan - Kindergarten children enjoy new playground equipment at a municipal park in Hirono in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima on Oct. 1, 2014, following the removal of an evacuation order imposed in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. Some 40 kindergartners were invited before the full reopening of the park next spring.

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