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NEW YORK - High school students from Sendai, a city hit by a massive tsunami in 2011, emphasized the importance of passing on disaster lessons to future generations and the significance of disaster prevention education during a meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Wednesday.“We are deeply grateful to people from around the world who supported us during the disaster,” 18-year-old Ruka Ogura, a student from Sendai Daiichi High School, said in a speech at the meeting to mark the 10th anniversary of World Tsunami Awareness Day.“The city of Sendai now has a responsibility to pass the lessons and experiences,” said Ogura, who will serve as chairperson at the High School Students Summit on World Tsunami Awareness Day in Sendai on Nov. 27 and 28, a gathering that will bring together high school students from around the globe.
