NPO provides grief-healing support to kids across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiro Nishida (back L), director of Sendai-based nonprofit organization Children's Grief Support Station, plays with a group of children in a meeting room at a hotel in Tokyo in September 2014. The organization, specializing in taking care of the psychological wellbeing of children who have lost family members, has expanded its services beyond areas hit by the 2011 earthquake to 14 major cities across Japan. (Kyodo)

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