Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami

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Visitors and photographers gather at the enclosure of female giant panda Xiannu, named Shin Shin in Japan, as it eats bamboo at Ueno Zoological Park in Tokyo April 1, 2011, on the first day its appearance with a fellow male panda, Bili, named Ri Ri in Japan, to the public. 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. Picture taken by fish-eye lens.​

 

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A statue of Hotei Buddha sits in the debris in the tsunami-destroyed town of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan Friday, April 1, 2011.

A survivor rides a bicycle through the tsunami-destroyed area of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan Friday, April 1, 2011.​

 

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A girl buys a panda doll at a souvenir shop near Tokyo's Ueno Zoo on April 1, 2011.

A girl smiles as she holds a panda doll before the giant female panda Shin Shin eating bamboo at 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.​

 

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Farmers from Fukushima Prefecture and representatives of the regional agricultural association (in red and yellow jackets) try to sell rice and other produce, such as tomatoes and cucumbers, from the prefecture where the troubled nuclear power complex is located as setting up a spot sale store in Tokyo Friday, April 1, 2011. They hope to sell the foods exempt from the government's shipping regulations over radiation-detected foods.​

 

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A Taipei City health official shows the media the radiation reading of a Japanese imported snack during a news conference in a supermarket in Taipei April 1, 2011. Taiwan has found low levels of radioactive iodine 131 from Japan's stricken nuclear plant in air samples from the island's north, its nuclear energy body said, but the levels do not pose any health risk. The finding prompted the Taipei city government to announce on Friday it would step up testing of imported foods in the city's supermarkets and stores.​

 

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A protester shouts slogans as he raises his fist toward to the head office of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. (TEPCO) during an anti-nuclear march in Tokyo March 31, 2011. Pressure mounted on Japan on Thursday to expand the evacuation zone around its stricken nuclear power plants after high levels of radiation were found outside the zone and radioactivity in seawater reached more than 4,000 times its legal limit.​

 

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A Toyota dealership is seen at a devastated area after the earthquake and tsunami, in Minamisanriku town, Miyagi prefecture.

In this March 28, 2011 file photo, new vehicles damaged by the March 11 tsunami waters sit lined in a Toyota parking lot at the Sendai port, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Japan's car sales plunged nearly 40 percent in March following the tsunami and nuclear disaster, an industry group said Friday April 1, 2011. Automakers sold 279,389 cars in Japan last month, down 37 percent _ the biggest ever year-on-year drop for March, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said.​

 

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Japanese Prime Minister Naota Kan wipes his brow as he listens to questions wearing his usual suit as opposed to a blue emergency uniform in front of a national flag with mourning ribbon during a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo on April 1, 2011​

 

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Former Japan captain Hidetoshi Nakata (L-R) and Tsuyoshi Kitazawa, Masaaki Sawanobori and Masakiyo Maezono playing with the Albirex Niigata Singapore selection, pose before the start of a charity match against S.League All Stars at the Jalan Besar Stadium in Singapore April 2, 2011.​

 

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Former Japan captain Hidetoshi Nakata (C) of the Take Action Foundation, bows with teammates from the Albirex Niigata Singapore selection after a charity match against S.League All Stars at the Jalan Besar Stadium in Singapore April 2, 2011. The match is to raise funds for the Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief efforts.

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TV cameramen and still photographers aim at a rescued dog held by a Japan Coast Guard member after it was transported from the earthquake and tsunami devastated city of Kesennuma to Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, April 2, 2011. The dog, wearing a collar but no address on it, was found Friday drifting on the roof of a house floating 1.8 kilometers (1.1 miles) off Kesennuma​

 

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Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) speaks to employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) as he visits J-village, about 20 km (12 miles) from the TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, at Naraha town in Fukushima prefecture, in this photo taken by the Prime Minister's Office of Japan on April 2, 2011.​

 

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Kan made his first visit to the country's tsunami-devastated region on Saturday as the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear complex said it had found radioactive water leaking into the sea from a cracked concrete pit. Kan later entered the 20-km (12-mile) evacuation zone and visited J-village just inside the zone, a sports facility serving as the headquarters for emergency teams trying to cool the six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi plant.​

 

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Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C), dressed in the blue work clothes, walks with members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force as he visits J-village, about 20 km (12 miles) from the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, at Naraha town in Fukushima prefecture, in this photo taken by the Prime Minister's Office of Japan on April 2, 2011​

 

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Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L), dressed in the blue work clothes, speaks to members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force as he visits J-village, about 20 km (12 miles) from the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, at Naraha town in Fukushima prefecture, in this photo taken by the Prime Minister's Office of Japan on April 2, 2011.​

 

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Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (3rd R) observes a minute of silence as he inspects the damage in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami devastated city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, in this photo taken by the Prime Minister's Office of Japan on April 2, 2011​

 

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Workers wearing protective suits spray adhesive synthetic resin over the ground at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima prefecture in this April 1, 2011 file photograph. The drama at the six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi complex has dragged into a fourth week, unsettling the global nuclear industry and compounding Japan's suffering after an earthquake and tsunami that left about 27,500 people dead or missing. Radiation has leaked into the sea, food, drinking water and air. It is hindering efforts to cool overheating fuel rods work at the plant and regain control of the damaged reactors.​

 

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In this handout photo by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), a damaged concrete pit of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant No. 2 reactor is pictured in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan April 2, 2011

A view of concrete poured into a damaged pit to stop leakage of radioactive contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant No. 2 reactor is seen in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan April 2, 2011 in this handout from Tokyo Electric Power.​

 

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Visitors and photographers gather at the enclosure of female giant panda Xiannu, named Shin Shin in Japan, as it eats bamboo at Ueno Zoological Park in Tokyo April 1, 2011, on the first day its appearance with a fellow male panda, Bili, named Ri Ri in Japan, to the public. 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. Picture taken by fish-eye lens.​

The girl looks cuter than the panda