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Turkish local government officials seeking to recover from the earthquake visited Ishinomaki City in Miyagi Prefecture and inspected the progress of recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake. The visit was sponsored by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and 13 local government officials responsible for reconstruction and disaster prevention in Turkey visited Ishinomaki City. Turkey was hit hard by an earthquake last February, with more than 53,000 people killed and more than 200,000 buildings collapsing, including in neighboring Syria, according to JICA. An employee of a company working on a town development project said: “How are we going to reopen the store in the future? We talked a lot about how we were going to revitalize it.” got an explanation of the city’s revitalization efforts and more. After the earthquake, we explored the embankment built near the mouth of the former Kitakami River, which is also used as an event venue. Participants said that after returning to Japan, they would like to share Japanese examples through conferences and other events.