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Oil Spill

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports volunteers have returned to Japan's western coast to resume efforts to clean up one of the country's worst oil spills. Bad weather kept people out of the area for most of the last week. The volunteers are critical of the Japanese governmment's handling of the crisis, and residents of coastal communities are worried about their ability to make a living in the future.

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