Shipping containers provide housing in quake-hit city

Shipping containers provide housing in quake-hit city

MORIOKA, Japan - Shipping containers turned into a row of living quarters, as seen in this file photo taken in June 2014 in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, serve as a furnished dormitory mainly for people involved in reconstruction work in the northeastern Japanese city amid a severe housing shortage following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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