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Photos: Disaster survivors express their wishes for 2012
'I wish tsunami will never come again.' Haruki Kanno, 7, a first-grade elementary school student, from Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture.
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The Mainichi Newspapers Photo Department asked survivors of the March 11, 2011 triple disasters to express their hopes and wishes for the New Year.
Despite lack of everyday "normalcy" as a consequence of the disasters and the still long and unpaved road ahead towards full recovery, the victims' eagerness to live to the fullest is evident from their wishes.
January 13, 2012
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