The Calamity of Japan's 9.0-Magnitude Quake

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Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, April 10, 2011
Tsunami survivor Kenichi Kurosawa and his friends write "Ganbaro!," or "Hang in there," on a billboard lit up by car headlights nearly one month after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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