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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

Disaster-hit school building reopens as memorial site

A visitor looks inside a disaster-ravaged classroom at the former site of Kadonowaki Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sunday. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi -- A disaster memorial opened Sunday on the grounds of an elementary school in Miyagi Prefecture that was badly damaged in the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

Kadonowaki Elementary School was located in an area of Ishinomaki that was hit by tsunami up to seven meters high, with waves reaching the height of the school's first-floor ceiling.

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