THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 10, 2024 at 18:10 JST
Students hide under their desks when the announcement was made, “Please take action to protect your heads,” in a drill during the first day of school at Unoke Junior High School in Kahoku, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 9. (Yoshika Uematsu)
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