FEATURE: Steeplejack firm chief offers helping hand to ex-inmates, delinquents

Masahiro Okamoto, the president of a steeplejack firm, speaks in front of inmates at the Kurobane Prison in Tochigi Prefecture, on Dec. 9, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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