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Seven years after earthquake, Fukushima teen says March 11 is an “ordinary day” in the prefecture
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Casey Baseel
Mar 12, 2018
High schooler hopes the prefecture will shed its disaster zone image, and that the rest of Japan will start to see Fukushima as normal again.
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Pokémon GO preserves the memory of building lost in Japan’s 2011 tsunami by making it a PokéStop
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Casey Baseel
Aug 4, 2016
The Okada Theater was swept away in 2011, but Pokémon GO players are still visiting its location, and learning a little about this tsunami-ravaged city in the process.
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