Tsunami-hit city picks American as global PR chief

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Amya Miller, an experienced American interpreter, holds a letter of appointment at the city hall of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture on Nov. 1, 2012, as the northeastern Japanese city ravaged by the 2011 tsunami chose her as its director of global public relations, as it seeks to actively send messages on the recovery process to the rest of the world.

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