School opens in quake-hit northern Japan town with help of Qatari fund

A new school has opened in the northeastern Japan town of Onagawa, where hundreds of lives were lost in the 2011 quake and tsunami, with help from a government of Qatar relief fund.A one billion yen ($9.4 million) contribution from the Gulf state helped cover some of the 5.3 billion yen spent on the project to build a municipality-run school for first to ninth graders in the Miyagi Prefecture community. The Japanese government also extended subsidies for the project.Qatar's involvement in the project began in 2012 when former Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani launched the Qatar Friendship Fun…READ FULL ARTICLE