Disaster-hit city marks 50th anniv. with "aloha assembly"

Disaster-hit city marks 50th anniv. with "aloha assembly"

IWAKI, Japan, June 9 Kyodo - A hula dance team perform during a special "aloha" session of the Iwaki city assembly in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima on June 9, 2016, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the city hit hard by the 2011 killer tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster. Assembly members wore Hawaiian shirts and enjoyed the performance by "Hula Girl," a dance team at a local spa resort facility, which has been a symbol of Iwaki's reconstruction efforts.

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