Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (front, R) prays at a cenotaph built in Namie, a Fukushima Prefecture town hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster and the subsequent nuclear crisis, in memory of its victims on Oct. 17, 2021. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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