Easy-to-build temp housing

Easy-to-build temp housing

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A sample easy-to-build temporary housing unit is brought to Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 27, 2011. Inside the unit is a kitchen and bunk bed. Yamaguchi prefectural assemblyman Seiji Okamura, who led a project to develop such housing, said four adults would take only about an hour to set up a unit. Many people lost their homes in the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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  • ILEA001158029
  • Registered date
  • 2011/3/29 00:00:00
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  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2011 Kyodo News
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  • 1889 × 1242 pixel
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  • 240 dpi
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  • 511.96(KB)*
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