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INTERNATIONAL
A Village Erased
KESEN, Japan — For hundreds of years, this village rode the currents of time: battle and plague, the sowing and reaping of rice, the planting and felling of bushes. Then the wave hit. Time stopped. And the village turned historical past. When a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami struck coastal Japan on March 11, 2011, greater than 200 residents of the village, Kesen, in Iwate Prefecture, have been killed. All however two of 550 properties have been destroyed. After the waters…
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