Tokyo gov't sets up shelter for laid-off dispatch workers

Tokyo gov't sets up shelter for laid-off dispatch workers

TOKYO, Japan - People who have lost their jobs and homes enter the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center in Tokyo to stay at a temporary shelter opened by the Tokyo metropolitan government inside the center on Dec. 28, 2009. The shelter was set up to provide meals and accommodations for them during the year-end and New Year's holidays.

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