Interior of shipping container house in quake-hit city

Interior of shipping container house in quake-hit city

MORIOKA, Japan - Kinya Seki, president of Tokyo-based consultant company Big Apple Inc. operating living quarters made out of shipping containers, shows in June 2014 one of furnished rooms used as a dormitory in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, amid a severe housing shortage in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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