Candles flicker, mourners drum for dead in Japan tsunami town (Reuters)

A girl lights candles at an event to commemorate the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, north of Japan, August 12, 2011. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonReuters – Children in a tsunami-devastated town in northeast Japan lit 10,000 candles and banged taiko drums Friday on the eve of “obon,” a Buddhist ceremony to honor the dead, as residents struggle to rebuild lives five months after the disaster.