THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 6, 2021 at 17:22 JST
Attendees offer flowers and prayers at the memorial ceremony for the victims of the 2018 flooding in western Japan in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on July 6. (Takuya Tanabe)
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