New Fukushima adults show calligraphy from time capsule

New Fukushima adults show calligraphy from time capsule

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Young women from Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, show off examples of their calligraphy taken from a time capsule dating back to their elementary school days after a coming-of-age ceremony on Jan. 11, 2015, held in Nihonmatsu in the northeastern Japan prefecture. Their hometown remains off-limits following the nuclear crisis triggered by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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