FUKUOKA – Japan is being encouraged to move away from its much- maligned approach of handing out cash for refugee relief and to instead deal with the shortage of trained aid workers in Asia.
A three-week international training program for relief workers is being held in Fukuoka Prefecture in a bid to cope with the steadily increasing number of asylum seekers in Asia.
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