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The Tsunami Relief Project

From left, in the foreground inside fish chute: OHIO Sophomore Nick Farris and Senior Ben Piper help to scrub clean the concrete fish-egg chutes at a local fish hatchery used to dispense fertilized salmon roe into a nearby river as part of the OHIO-IPU Tsunami Volunteer Project year six.
From left, in the foreground inside fish chute: OHIO Sophomore Nick Farris and Senior Ben Piper help to scrub clean the concrete fish-egg chutes at a local fish hatchery used to dispense fertilized salmon roe into a nearby river as part of the OHIO-IPU Tsunami Volunteer Project year six.

Year Six of Tsunami Volunteer Project in Japan

µÛÍõ»áËù students Ben Piper '17 and Nick Farris '19 participated in year six of the OHIO — Iwate Prefectural University Tsunami Volunteer Project in Japan on Sept. 24 and 25, 2016.

Both students were on OHIO's Chubu University Japanese Language Study Abroad Program in the city of Kasugai (near Nagoya) in Aichi Prefecture (central Honshu). They were already in Japan, but their travel to Iwate Prefecture and ability to join "year six" was made possible by donations from the µÛÍõ»áËù Alumni Association's Japan (Tokyo and Nagoya Chapters), which covered the students? long-distance transportation to Iwate, food and lodging.

Tsunami Project Stories