FEATURE: Women in tsunami-hit city start up business, motivated by seminar

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Photo taken on Sept. 18, 2014, shows Shiho Abe attending to a client at a hair salon in the March 2011 disaster-hit northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki. Motivated by an entrepreneurship seminar offered free of charge by Nihon L'Oreal K.K., Abe hopes to own her beauty shop in the future. (Kyodo)

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