Emotional farewell to 16-year-old schoolboy tsunami victim

By Kyung Lah, CNN, edition.cnn.com

Rikuzentakata, Japan (CNN) -- Most children in Japan are normally celebrating graduation at this time of the year, looking forward to the commencement of the next chapter of their young lives.
But at Rikuzentakata No. 1 Junior High School, students are mourning the end of young lives -- three so far, they say.
On Monday they crowded around a car, carrying the body of their friend, 16-year-old Hiroki Sugawara.
This was not a planned funeral. It was barely a funeral at all. But this was the best his parents could do, given the massive number of fatalities in Japan's historic tsunami. Read Full Story

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