Interpreters reunited with India disaster response team

NEW DELHI, India - Kenichiro Hiramoto (2nd from R, front) and three other Japanese are pictured with Alok Avasthy (3rd from R, front), the Pune commandant of the National Disaster Response Force, and force members at the NDRF headquarters outside New Delhi, on March 12, 2012. The Japanese group, who served as volunteer interpreters for members of India's disaster response team sent to Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster to search for the missing, were reunited with the Indian relief workers.

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