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Toshiro Sato, who lost his daughter in the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster, talks about the tragedy during a storytelling event on Oct. 25, 2020, in front of Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Storytelling activities at the school, where a total of 74 pupils, including his daughter, died in the tsunami, had been suspended for about nine months due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo