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'Miracle' Tree Stands Tall In Japan After Tsunami

by Chris Benderev, NPR
December 15, 2012

The Japanese town of Rikuzentakata was hit especially hard by the tsunami, which also wiped away a pine forest of 70,000 trees. All of them, except for one that's been dubbed the "miracle pine tree."

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