This is the third in a series examining how the northeast and the nation are progressing with efforts to deal with the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.
For the past three years, Fika Sulistyani's morning routine has consisted of either gutting or filleting fish at a seafood processing factory in Miyagi Prefecture.
The Indonesia native is among about 350 foreign nationals who have been brought to the coastal city of Shiogama under a government-sponsored technical trainee program as one of the region’s core industries deals with the losses caused by the devastating tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011.