Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami

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A makeshift city office of Futaba-cho in Fukushima Prefecture was set up in the hallway of 'Saitama Super Arena' which has evacuated here after the accident occurred at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant.

More than 200 passangers are in a line to wait for boarding on a flight to Haneda at Hamagata Airport

 

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A graduation ceremony of the University of defense is under way in the electricity saving mode. They abstained from doing the traditional ceremony of 'throwing hats up in the air'.

A makeshift shrine made to honor victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Natori on March 21.

 

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An elderly man read a newspaper in his small space at a shelter in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture.

People, whose homes were destroyed by a tsunami, take a bath in a tent set up by Japan's Self Defense Force in Kamaishi, March 22

 

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Schoolbags are recovered from Okawa elementary school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture on March 22. Only 24 of 84 schoolchildren and 13 teachers have been found alive so far. After the earthquake hit, all the schoolchildren and teachers prepared for evacuation in the school yard. Some children left for their homes with family members. While the rest of the children were waiting to be collected, the tsunami hit.

 

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Efforts to spray water into the No. 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which was struck by an earthquake and tsunami in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, are seen in this March 22, 2011 handout photograph released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. Picture taken March 22, 2011.​

 

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Japanese defense soldiers unload a coffin of an earthquake and tsunami victim at a temporary cemetary in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture on March 23, 2011. The number of people confirmed dead or listed as missing in Japan surpassed 24,000, 12 days after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the country's northeast coast.​

 

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Herder Kenichi Hasegawa discards raw milk into a pit at a corn field in Iitate, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Japan has banned sale of milk, spinach and a few other products in regions from the leaking power plant toward Tokyo after discovery of higher-than-allowed levels of radiation in a range of foods.​

 

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Standing among the sad ruins of her parents' tsunami-shattered home, Yoshie Kikuchi begins to acknowledge that they probably did not survive the enormous wave that smashed into Japan.​

 

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Minamisanriku residents at a camp for earthquake victims.

 

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Japan Ground Self-Defense Force personnel salute after laying a coffin during a burial ceremony for the March 11 tsunami victims in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Wednesday, March 23, 2011.


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Sony's tsunami-crippled warehouse is seen near Sendai port, northeast Japan, March 23, 2011. The Japanese government on Wednesday estimated the direct damage from a deadly earthquake and tsunami that struck the country's northeast this month at 16-25 trillion yen ($185-308 billion), making it the world's costliest natural disaster.​

 

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Japan Railway East track maintenance workers repair the track of the 'shinkansen' bullet train in the city of Sendai in Miyagi prefecture on March 23, 2011. The number of people confirmed dead or listed as missing in Japan surpassed 24,000, 12 days after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the country's northeast coast.​

 

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Yoshitaka Hayakeyama, 71, and his wife carry belongings collected from their house in a destroyed residential area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture

A woman walks through the debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture

 

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A woman goes through the rubble trying to find some merchandise in a sports clothing store in Kensennuma

A man rides a scooter through a street strewn with tsunami debris in Kesennuma

 

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A Toyota dealership is seen in Minamisanriku

Washed away cars are seen on top of a building in tsunami-hit coastal fishing town of Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture

 

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A Buzz Lightyear toy figure is seen among wreckage of destroyed houses in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture

A man walks with his dog through a destroyed residential area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture

 

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ex japanese shop

pet with owner gone

 

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A clock is seen stopped in the destruction in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture

The destruction is seen in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture