Tokyo bakery providing way for unemployed to make some bread (JAPAN)

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Mitsuo Hirose, right, runs a bakery in Tokyo's Suginami Ward. Masaki Yatsuhashi went to work at Hirose's shop after he was forced to leave his own bakery in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture. (Ippei Nakata)

A Tokyo baker, moved by the unfolding disaster in northern Japan, is hiring people who lost their jobs in the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami or accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

Mitsuo Hirose, 60, who runs Lisdor Mitsu organic bakery in Tokyo's Suginami Ward, has already hired Masaki Yatsuhashi, a baker from Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, and four more people are expected to start soon.

Adding five employees to a workforce of 13 is not financially easy, but Hirose said he's determined to help people harmed by the disaster.

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