Part-time work offered to evacuees near Mt. Usu

ABUTA, Japan - Women in Abuta, near the Mt. Usu volcano in southwestern Hokkaido, string young scallops on ropes April 20 for growing them in the sea. The Abuta town office began offering this kind of part-time work on coastal scallop farms the same day to about 255 residents who were forced to evacuate the area and became jobless because of the eruption of the mountain March 31.

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• 2000/4/20 00:00:00

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