San Fernando Valley : LEARNING FROM THE QUAKE
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Members of a Japanese think tank team seeking ways to improve disaster relief efforts in their country visited a Northridge organization Wednesday formed to help victims of the Northridge earthquake.
The nine-member group met with leaders of Community Assisting Recovery with the hope of using the private, nonprofit organization as a model for developing a similar organization in Japan.
They said they are seeking ways to help 50,000 homeless people who are still languishing in relocation camps in the wake of the Jan. 17 Kobe earthquake.
“We don’t know that the government in the U.S. is doing enough to help the people, but they are certainly doing more than the government in Japan,” said Kodie Osamu, a professor of urban planning at the University of Tokyo.
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