'Outsider' supporters help disaster-hit residents rebuild

'Outsider' supporters help disaster-hit residents rebuild

SENDAI, Japan - Risa Hikata (R), one of the ''reconstruction supporters'' working in areas hit by the March 2011 disaster, talks with a resident in the Kitakami district of the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 30, 2013.

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