By SHINJIRO OMIYA/ Staff Writer
March 11, 2021 at 08:00 JST
Akemi Karino plants tulip bulbs in a flower bed on higher ground near the former Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 10. She had tears in her eyes from the memory of Ai, her daughter who died at the school. (Shigetaka Kodama)
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Five days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, Akemi Karino came to look for her missing daughter at her destroyed elementary school. [Read More]
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