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PHOTO: Naraha residents allowed to visit family...
People visit their family grave plots in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 13. (Satoru Ogawa)
August 14, 2012
Many of those who evacuated from Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, after last year's nuclear disaster made a temporary return to their hometown Aug. 13 to visit their family graves ...
Quake survivors show their moves in Awa Odori dance ...
The Awa Odori folk dance festival opens in Tokushima on Aug. 12, featuring an elegant "onna odori" in the city's Aiba district. (Tetsuro Takehana)Tokushima on Aug. 12. (Tetsuro Takehana)
August 13, 2011
TOKUSHIMA--A traditional Awa Odori folk dance festival opened Aug. 12 in Tokushima featuring a dance troupe from disaster-hit Sendai.
Tsunami survivors have heavy hearts on eve of obon
Kenji Abe, right, lays flowers at the grave of her aunt on Mount Hiyoriyama in the Yuriage district of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 11, while his eldest son, Shuta, prays for the repose of her soul. Abe's aunt was swept away by tsunami. (Toshiyuki Takeya)
August 12, 2011
Buddhist priest Honen Tanno in Sendai's Wakabayashi Ward is reading a sutra in the stifling hot August air while standing in a pine forest on the beach.
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