JAPANESE COMPANIES BEGIN METAL DEBRIS CLEANUP POST-DISASTER
August 1st, 2011
BY WANG FANGQING
NOW Four months after the earthquake and tsunami that hit Northeast Japan this past March, Japanese companies have now finally begun the enormous task of debris clean-up, recycling salvageable metals, beginning with one of the worst-hit areas: Kamaishi City, in Iwate prefecture.
On July 25, Kamaishi's local government appointed a joint venture of three recycling and engineering companies - the Takeei Corporation, Kajima Corporation and Sangyo Shinko Co, all based in Tokyo - to take charge of a city clean-up project, which is a part of a local ...
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