Child care proves mother of all lifelines for tsunami-hit cod roe firm

A cod roe product maker in northeastern Japan has attracted young job-seeking mothers with an offer of on-site child care, in the process revitalizing a business and community that is still recovering from the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.Despite a location near the foot of a mountain some 1.6 kilometers from the Pacific coast, the Ishinomaki-based "tarako" and "mentaiko" producer Minato Suisan Co. was not safe from the approximately 2-meter-high tsunami waves that engulfed it and largely destroyed the Miyagi Prefecture city.After resuming production in May 2011, just short of two month…READ FULL ARTICLE