memorial ceremony

Residents of tsunami-hit Tohoku city recall those...
Residents offer flowers for victims of the quake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 11. (Louis Templado)
March 11, 2012
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--Naoya Okamoto, who saw his high school washed away in the tsunami spawned by last year's Great East Japan Earthquake, returned here on March 11 ...
Bereaved don protective gear for memorial service
Norio Kimura, left, and other bereaved family members make offerings of flowers July 24 at a memorial ceremony in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. (Hiroshi Kawai)
July 25, 2011
OKUMA, Fukushima Prefecture--With radiation levels still high more than four months after the nuclear disaster, attendees at a memorial ceremony on July 24 for victims of the...
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