Okawa

At the Okawa Elementary School in Miyagi, only 34 of 121 students are slowly resuming normal life and beginning to attend a nearby school after the tsunami devastated their school and left many of their classmates and teachers dead or missing.

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Yuriko Nakao/Reuters A woman cried as she looked through children's belongings near the Okawa elementary school on March 28.

Before School Starts 2011

Yuriko Nakao/Reuters Students of Okawa elementary school hugged each other at the temporary school on March 29.

Before School Starts 2011

Yuriko Nakao/Reuters Debris around lockers inside a classroom at the Okawa elementary school on March 29.

Before School Starts 2011

Here, a student looked for his bag near the tsunami-hit Okawa elementary school in Miyagi prefecture after the first school day since the earthquake and tsunami.

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Lee Jin-man/Associated Press Survivors walked past the damaged wall of Okawa elementary school in Ishinomaki Tuesday.

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Okawa elementary school students hugged each other at a temporary alternate school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture.

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Here, a student looked for his bag near the tsunami-hit Okawa elementary school in Miyagi prefecture after the first school day since the earthquake and tsunami.

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Yuriko Nakao/Reuters On March 29, a student of Okawa elementary school walked with his parents toward a temporary school for the first school day since the earthquake and tsunami.

Before School Starts 2011

Nearly 3,000 are still missing, including some students from Okawa Elementary School, where 74 of 108 students and 10 of 13 teachers and staff were swept away.

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