Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami

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Right the documentary above by british channel 4, god they work fast, how did they edit so much for so soon, they must be doing OT. Kudo to them.
They are the second private tv station in UK, ITV was first, they second, they win quite a lot of award over the year for innovation in TV. something mediacorp will never achieve due to restriction.

Family members and relatives transfer the bones of Masaichi Oyama, who was killed by the tsunami, by chopsticks into an urn the during a cremation ceremony on Thursday. The family lost three family members from the earthquake and tsunami. Under Japanese Buddhist practice, a cremation is the expected traditional way of dealing with the dead, but now with the death toll so high, crematoriums are overwhelmed and there is a shortage of fuel to burn them. Local municipalities are forced to dig mass graves as a temporary solution.

KURIHARA, JAPAN - MARCH 24: Family members grieve over the coffins of Tsune Oyama and Masaichi Oyama during a cremation, they were both killed by the tsunami, on March 24, 2011 in Kurihara,Japan. The family lost three family members from the earthquake and tsunami. Under Japanese Buddhist practice

 

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Soldiers lowered a coffin at a temporary mass grave site in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture.

Soldiers salute prior to placing a coffin into the tomb at a temporary cemetery in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture. A total of 60 tsunami victims were placed at the temporary cemetery over the last two days.

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

On Tuesday, the government raised the official death toll upward to 9,079, and said more than 12,600 were missing, although officials cautioned there could be overlap between the figures. The final death toll is likely to reach 18,000, the government has said.

 

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Members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces carried a coffin during a mass burial ceremony in the coastal city of Higashi Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture

Ekuko Kimura, 58, cried over her dead son, Taishi Kimura, 31
Mourners laid flowers in front of a tsunami victim’s coffin in Higashi Matsushima.

A relative of a earthquake and tsunami victim cries as she looks into a coffin before burial at a temporary mass grave site in Higashimatsushima on Wednesday.

Mourners gathered for a mass burial on Wednesday in the coastal city of Higashi Matsushima,

Family members of victims of the earthquake and tsunami cried next to coffins at a temporary mass grave site in Higashi Matsushima.

 

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Japanese soldiers searched for the bodies of tsunami victims in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Tuesday.

Soldiers put an identifying tag on a body in Natori.

 

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Japanese Self Defense soldier are cleaning the rubble using heavy machinery.

A soldier walked down a path in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture.

 

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Otomo(front) said "it is our dish washing plate" and cried. Nakajima and she are sisters. Their father and brother were found dead in a car, and mother is missing. Natori, Miyagi Prefecture.

A woman watched as searching continued at Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. Only 24 of 84 schoolchildren and 13 teachers have been confirmed as alive by the school.

 

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A woman prayed in front of a kindergarten bus in which five children died in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.

On Tuesday, the Japanese government raised the official death toll from the tsunami and earthquake to 9,079, and said more than 12,600 were missing, although officials cautioned that there could be overlap between the figures. Firefighters and others searced for missing people in Sendai.

 

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pets in evacuation center

 

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Re: pets in evacuation center

Luna, a beagle, sits in her makeshift home at an evacuee center, Thursday, March 24, 2011 in Fukushima, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Japan, famous for drilling its citizens on how to prepare for all manner of natural disasters, has done far less to prepare those who live near its many nuclear reactors for

　Luna, a beagle, is tied to a tree near her makeshift house at an evacuee center, Thursday, March 24, 2011 in Fukushima, Fukushima prefecture, Japan.

 

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A man talks to an evacuated dog at an evacuee center, Thursday, March 24, 2011 in Fukushima, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. The earthquake and tsunami that visited the country on March 11 has created not only a disaster for hundreds of thousands of people, but also for their pets, forcing them to suddenly fend for themselves.

An evacuated dog is played with a woman at an evacuee center, Thursday, March 24, 2011 in Fukushima, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. The earthquake and tsunami that visited the country on March 11 has created not only a disaster for hundreds of thousands of people, but also for their pets, forcing them to suddenly fend for themselves. Japan, famous for drilling its citizens on how to prepare for all manner of natural disasters, has done far less to prepare those who live near its many nuclear reactors for emergencies.

 

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Lady, the cat, is cared for at an evacuee center Thursday, March 24, 2011 in Fukushima, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. As Japan struggles to deal with its disaster, aid groups are beginning to bring food for tens of thousands of pets left isolated and starving in the devastated areas.

Donated pet foods are placed outside an evacuee center, Thursday, March 24, 2011 in Fukushima, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. The earthquake and tsunami that visited the country on March 11 has created not only a disaster for hundreds of thousands of people, but also for their pets, forcing them to suddenly fend for themselves. Japan, famous for drilling its citizens on how to prepare for all manner of natural disasters, has done far less to prepare those who live near its many nuclear reactors for emergencies. The sign reads: "Feel free to pick up."

 

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Children hide under a table at a junior high school as a strong aftershock jolted the area at Ishinomaki, northeastern Japan, Thursday.

Syoichi Yanashita, left, and his son Noriaki, right, cut evacuees' hair at the shelter.

 

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Women hang their laundry on makeshift lines in the seats of a gymnasium that has turned into an evacuation center in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, northern Japan, on March 24. Hundreds of thousands remain homeless, squeezed into temporary shelters without heat, warm food or medicine and no idea what to call home after the March 11 tsunami swallowed up communities along the coast and dozens of strong aftershocks continued to shake the nation.

 

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Evacuees line up to receive curry with rice from volunteers from Hokkaido at a shelter in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture on Thursday, March 24.

A shelter at Takata Daiichi junior high school in Rikuzentakata. Hundreds of thousands remain homeless, squeezed into temporary shelters without heat, warm food or medicine in communities along the coast of Japan.

 

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Asuka Oyama, 10, prayed over the coffin of Katsuko Oyama during a cremation ceremony on Thursday in Minamisanriku. The family lost three family members in the tsunami.

Saya Takahashi, 12, sits in class during a graduation ceremony for the sixth grade at the Ohya Elementary school in Kesennuma.

Students react to a guest speaker's message Tuesday at their graduation ceremony in the destroyed town of Yamada in northern Japan.

 

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Bereaved family members of victims watch as an excavator digs a temporary mass grave site in Higashi Matsushima, northern Japan March 23, 2011.

Bereaved family members of victims of the earthquake and tsunami open the lids of coffins before burying them at a temporary mass grave site in Higashi Matsushima, March 23, 2011.