A shiitake grower farmer in disaster-hit Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, is working to cultivate a sales channel in the Chubu region, while a Nagoya-based civil engineering company launches an office near the Tohoku city.
These are just a few examples illustrating how Nagoya's reconstruction support project for Rikuzentakata is gradually bearing fruit in the form of economic exchanges.
Rikuzentakata lost 68 of its 295 municipal officials to the March 11 tsunami.