Tsunami deprives school graduates of prospective jobs

OFUNATO, Japan - A cleanup gets underway at a tsunami-hit factory of chicken processing company Amatake Co. in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 26, 2011. The company had to cancel job offers to 14 new provisional recruits ahead of the April 1 start of the new business year due to the massive damage caused by the March 11 tsunami to its business. (Kyodo)

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