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Civil Engineers Needed in 3 Disaster-Hit Prefectures

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submitted by Alister Wm Macintyre

Many coastal Tohoku municipalities hit by the March 11 disaster and others affected by the Fukushima nuclear crisis are suffering from a severe shortage of civil engineers and other backup staff, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey.

The survey, which targeted 42 municipalities in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, was conducted before Saturday, which marked 11 months since the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Thirty-three of the municipalities along the hard-hit coast or near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have called for outside help to meet the worker shortage, the survey found.

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