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9-year-old's design to adorn quake-reconstruction coins

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

2012/06/03

The design by Taichi Kojima, a winner for reconstruction memorial coins

An illustration by a 9-year-old boy from Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, has been chosen among six winners of a competition to design coins to commemorate reconstruction following the Great East Japan Earthquake.



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