Survivors of Kobe, Niigata disasters help Tohoku quake victims

Survivors of Kobe, Niigata disasters help Tohoku quake victims

SENDAI, Japan - Ikumi Kitamura looks at hand-dyed products on Feb. 1, 2013 at a craft center set up in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, to create jobs for residents who evacuated the prefectural town of Tomioka due to radiation fears in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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