Photo: Eliza Strickland
Town-in-Exile: An empty school in Fukushima Prefecture has been converted into a town hall for the mayor of Okuma and his staff. The hallways are decorated with strings of paper cranes. A Japanese story holds that folding 1000 paper cranes conveys a wish or good luck; thus many well-wishers have sent collections to the town of Okuma.
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Eliza Strickland
Eliza Strickland is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum, where she covers AI, biomedical engineering, and other topics. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
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