Caviar producers breathe new life into abolished schools

Caviar producers breathe new life into abolished schools

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Photo taken July 12, 2013, shows an official checking the condition of sturgeon in one of the water tanks for sturgeon aquaculture placed inside what used to be a gymnasium of an abolished junior high school in Higashikagawa, Kagawa Prefecture.

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