Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami

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Thousands gather Tuesday, March 29, 2011, during a mass Buddhist ordination ceremony at Wat Dhammakya on the outskirts of Bangkok. More than 20,000 Buddhist novice monks gathered to offer prayers for world peace and the victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. In Thailand men are expected to become a Buddhist monk at least once in their life.​

 

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New Suzuki vehicles, destroyed by tsunami waters from the March 11 massive earthquake, are piled on the Suzuki company lot, Tuesday, March 29, 2011 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Much of Japan's auto industry, the second largest supplier of cars in the world, remains idle two weeks after a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country's northeast coast. Though few plants were seriously damaged by the quake, limited supplies of water and electricity have left many unable to reopen.​

 

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Part of Sendai's flooded airport facilities are being cleared by Japanese Self-Difence Force and the US military at Sendai Airport, Miyagi prefecture on March 29, 2011. The number of confirmed dead and people listed as missing from the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan's northeast coast topped 28,000, the National Police Agency said.​

 

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US airman tech. Sgt. Raymond Decker, 320th Special Tactics Squadron, guides a C130 cargo plane on a bike due to lack of guidance lights and ariport workers at Sendai Airport, Miyagi prefecture on March 29, 2011.​

 

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Workers carry a coffin of a victim of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a mass grave site in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. The devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami have left a huge backlog of thousands of bodies in makeshift morgues, leaving local governments no choice but to bury them in hastily dug mass graves. But this is a temporary grave as government said they would cremate bodies within two years so they can move them to family grave.

Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force pray for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a mass grave site in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Tuesday, March 29, 2011.​

 

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Asphalt is filled on a damaged road outside of Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, east of Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, March 29, 2011.​

 

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A security man stands by Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, east of Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Tokyo Disneyland was shut down after the March 11 earthquake and has been closed ever since. The theme park suffered minor damage, including cracked paths and soil liquefaction.​

 

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Disney goods at a shop outside of Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, east of Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, March 29, 2011

An escalator leading to Tokyo Disneyland is blocked at a train station in Urayasu, east of Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, March 29, 2011.​

 

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A closing sign stands in front of the gate of Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, east of Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, March 29, 2011​

 

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Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, east of Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, March 29, 2011.​

 

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A woman walks past a road damaged by soil liquefaction along a street outside of Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, east of Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, March 29, 2011​

 

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A woman leaves from a gate of Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, east of Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, March 29, 2011.​

 

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Graphic shows roundup for March 28 of key events following the 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan; includes details on the economic impact and the damaged nuclear facility.​

 

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Mar 30, 2011
Japan quake victims to get 100,000 pairs of Crocs

WASHINGTON - US SHOEMAKER Crocs said on Tuesday it was donating 100,000 pairs of its clunky, colorful rubber clogs to victims of Japan's devastating March 11 earthquake disaster.
'Donating 100,000 pairs of shoes is the least we can do to help mitigate the enormous devastation that's resulted from the earthquake and tsunami,' said Crocs president John McCarvel.
'We have Crocs employees, wholesale partners and many loyal customers in Japan, and we're honoured to be able to assist at a time when the Japanese people need our help the most.'
Crocs shot up as a US and then international phenomenon in the mid-2000s, popular for their comfort and, for some, as an anti-fashion statement.
But sales plummeted almost as quickly as the fashion tide turned, and the company lost money in 2008 and 2009 before moving back to profit last year with a new line of products.
The company also sent 80,000 pairs of shoes to Haiti after its 2010 earthquake disaster. -- AFP

 

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cheebye amercian very lame

they took the british channel 4 japan tsunami how it happened, and took out british commentary and change to amercian commentary, change the video a little, add more amercian footage and show it to their audience.
why amercian cannot understand british english





Japan's Killer Quake
An eyewitness account and investigation of the epic earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis Aired March 30, 2011 on PBS


Watch Japan's Killer Quake - NOVA
Aired March 30, 2011 on PBS
Program Description
In its worst crisis since World War II, Japan faces disaster on an epic scale: a death toll likely in the tens of thousands, massive destruction of homes and businesses, shortages of water and power, and the specter of nuclear meltdown. With exclusive footage, NOVA captures the unfolding human drama and offers a clear-headed investigation of what triggered the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear crisis. Can science and technology ever prevent devastation in the face of overwhelmingly powerful forces of nature?

 

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The Hamayuri, a catamaran signtseeing boat, sits atop a two-story Japanese inn building in the tsunami debris at Otsuchi town in Iwate prefecture on March 31, 2011. The number of confirmed dead and people listed as missing from the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan's northeast coast topped 28,000 on March 28, the National Police Agency said. The quake has become Japan's deadliest natural disaster since the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, which killed more than 142,000 people.​

 

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Japan's Emperor Akihito, standing foreground, and Empress Michiko, kneeling down, visit evacuees at a shelter in Tokyo Wednesday, March 30, 2011.​

 

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Emperor and Empress visited the shelter to encourage some 300 evacuees from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, mostly from Fukushima Prefecture where the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is located.

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A picture shows a dark sky over Tokyo's Narita airport runway built on pillars in the sea on March 31, 2011.​

 

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Thousands people queue up to see a pair of giant pandas under cherry blossoms outside of Tokyo's Ueno Zoo on April 1, 2011. A pair of pandas, leased from China, arrived at Ueno Zoo on February 21, and are now displayed to the public after the zoo closed following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

A sign showing the end of a long queue is displayed as thousands of people wait to see the first public appearance of female giant panda Xiannu, named Shin Shin in Japan, and male panda Bili, named Ri Ri in Japan, at Ueno Zoological Park in Tokyo April 1, 2011. Xiannu and Bili, both five years old, who arrived from China's Sichuan province in February, were shown to the public at Ueno on Friday, marking the first viewing of pandas in Japan in three years. The appearance of the two giant pandas coincides with the reopening of the zoo from a temporary closure, following the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan, Kyodo news reports.​