In disaster-prone Japan, some communities consider major moves

[DorrisMahn]

In disaster-prone Japan, some communities consider major moves

Lifting a framed, yellowing photograph off the wall of his tatami-floored living room, Hideo Shimoju points toward the right edge of the monochromatic image to where his family’s sawmill and workers’ tenement houses were standing nearly a century ago, by the banks of the Naka River.
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