The second, a collection of neat rows lined with rocks and wilted flowers, has filled in recent months as the town's death toll from the latest drought has climbed to one child each day.
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The eastern Oki Islands, a big ridge of three rows lines up in parallel to the Japanese archipelago, and it connects with a Yamato Basin which has expanded from Oki Islands and offshore of the Tohoku region to the south in between those.