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Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 6 | KYODO
Jiji Mar 11, 2021
Young people are increasingly working to help reconstruction efforts in the Tohoku region, hit hard by the disasters of March 11, 2011, by moving there and tackling challenges such as depopulation and regional revitalization.
Shunsuke Mitsui, 32, representative director of SET, a nonprofit based in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, hails from Ibaraki Prefecture.
He established SET in March 2011, when he was a university student, and has engaged in volunteering activities for reconstruction. Upon graduating, he moved to the Hirota district of Rikuzentakata and served as a city assembly member for four years from 2015.
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