Kids enjoy citrus picking in ex-evacuation zone

HIRONO, Japan - Kindergartners take part in picking "mikan" at an orange grove in the Fukushima prefectural town of Hirono on Dec. 15, 2014. The town was once designated as an evacuation zone after the 2011 nuclear disaster in the northeastern Japanese prefecture. The orange grove resumed fruit picking in 2013 due to progress in decontamination work.

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