Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami

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Japanese farmer Takakazu Anzai stands inside a greenhouse where he and his family produce shiitake mushrooms near Fukushima, northern Japan April 5, 2011. The Anzai family grows their mushrooms indoors, as a way to reduce the contact with high levels of airborne radiation produced by the Fukushima nuclear plant 60 kilometres (37 miles) away. The operator of Japan's nuclear power plant that has been crippled after an earthquake and tsunami, started paying "condolence money" on Tuesday to victims of the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl while it kept pouring radioactive water into the sea.​

 

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Tsunami survivor Kazuo Ito, 69, sits and looks down on an area by the marina where around 130 houses were washed clean away by the tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, on April 6, 2011. Ito was set to retire this year but now he has only his work cloths and a car after loosing the rest of his possessions in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disasters. With the toll topping 10,000 confirmed dead the March 11 quake has become Japan's deadliest natural disaster since the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, which killed more than 142,000 people. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes and have taken shelter in emergency facilities.​

 

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Members of a Mexican relief team gather as they launch their search operation in the tsunami-ravaged city of Natori in Miyagi Prefecture Wednesday, April 6, 2011.​

 

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Japanese figure skating Olympic gold medallist Shizuka Arakawa (R), who grew up in Sendai, signs autographs for tsunami-effected evacuees as she visits a shelter in Sendai in Miyagi prefecture on April 6, 2011. Russia will host the world figure skating championships at the end of this month instead of Japan after the earthquake disaster forced it to renounce the event.

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A floating pontoon as a public fishing park is towed off a port in Shimizu, central Japan, Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Shimizu city authority offered the pontoon, known as "Mega Float," to Tokyo Electric Power Co. ,(TEPCO) to help store highly contaminated stagnant water at the compound of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant which was damaged by the March 11 earthquake-triggered tsunami.​

 

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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) speaks to mayors and chiefs of Fukushima Prefecture's Futaba district towns and villages and assemblymen (seated) during a meeting over problems caused by the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, at Kan's official residence in Tokyo on April 5, 2011. A total of 15 delegates from the local authorities attended the meeting.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, right, receives a request letter over the issues relating to tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant from Yuko Endo, chairman of Fukushima Prefecture's Futaba district towns and villages association, during a meeting at Prime Minister's official residence in Tokyo Tuesday, April 5, 2011. A total of 15 chiefs and assemblymen of the local authorities around the nuclear complex talked with Kan about their residents who have been taking refugee at evacuation centers because of radiation leakage from the plant.​

 

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Buddhist mortuary tablets collected from the debris of the March 11 tsunami triggered by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake sit with bottles of oil and vinegar at an evacuation centre in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, on April 6, 2011.​

 

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People eat at an evacuation centre in Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture on April 5, 2011. The wider economic fallout from Japan's triple calamity -- the massive March 11 earthquake, giant tsunami and the nuclear crisis -- is likely to drive the country into recession in coming months, said a survey of economists.​

 

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A survivor of the March 11 tsunami triggered by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake collects charged solar lamps for the evening at an evacuation centre in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, on April 6, 2011​

 

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April 6, 2011. Honda Motor said it would cut UK manufacturing volumes by half from April 11 because of a shortage of some components supplied from Japan following the earthquake and tsunami in the country in March.​

 

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People hold umbrellas as it rains in Seoul April 7, 2011. Concerns about radiation fallout from Japan's nuclear disaster prompted some schools in South Korea to shut on Thursday as rain fell over most of the country, but the nuclear safety agency played down immediate health risks. The country's nuclear safety agency said a small level of radioactive iodine and caesium particles were reported in the rain falling on the island of Jeju off the country's south coast but it was not enough to cause public health concern.​

 

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Pedestrians walk with umbrellas amid fears of contaminated radioactive rain from Japan's stricken nuclear plant, in Seoul on April 7, 2011. Dozens of South Korean schools cancelled classes as rain fell across South Korea.​

 

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People use stairs as escalators are turned off due to ongoing energy saving scheme throughout the Japanese capital in Tokyo Thursday, April 7, 2011, nearly four weeks after a powerful earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan, badly damaging a nuclear power station.​

 

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A man rides a motorcycle through water in Ishinomaki city, Miyagi prefecture on April 8, 2011. A powerful aftershock that rocked an area of Japan still reeling from last month's earthquake and tsunami disaster killed two people and injured around 100, emergency services said.​

 

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Graphic shows location of latest 7.1 earthquake off the coast of the Miyagi prefecture.​

 

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Evacuees from the March 11 tsunami gather at the lobby of their shelter as they listen to a radio in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, early Friday, April 8, 2011, following a big aftershock that rocked earthquake-weary Japan late Thursday.​

 

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Documents and office furniture lies scattered across an office following an earthquake, in Sendai city, Miyagi prefecture on April 8, 2011.

Documents and office furniture lies scattered across an office following an earthquake, in Sendai city, Miyagi prefecture on April 8, 2011.​

 

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A helmeted yardman inspects Sendai railroad station, waterlogged by sprinkler glitch, in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, early Friday, April 8, 2011, following a big aftershock that rocked earthquake-weary Japan late Thursday.​

 

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Traffic jams are seen as the traffic lights were turned out due to a blackout following Thursday's earthquake in Sendai, northern Japan Friday, April 8, 2011. A big aftershock rocked quake-weary Japan late Thursday, rattling nerves as it knocked out power to the northern part of the country and prompted tsunami warnings that were later canceled.​