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Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami
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Survivors make a queue to receive a fried noodle lunch at their makeshift shelter in Onagawa town, Miyagi prefecture on April 14, 2011. Police began searching for tsunami victims in a 10-kilometre (six-mile) zone around Japan's crippled Fukushima atomic plant where frantic efforts continued to contain a nuclear crisis.
A stone monument dating from March 3, 1933 warns of the danger of earthquake and tsunamis, stands in Onagawa town, Miyagi prefecture on April 14, 2011.
"High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants," the stone slab reads. "Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point."
One stone marker warned of the danger in the coastal city of Kesennuma: "Always be prepared for unexpected tsunamis. Choose life over your possessions and valuables."
A Disney character fan stands next to an announcement board at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, east of Tokyo April 15, 2011. Tokyo Disneyland reopened its popular theme park on Friday after a closure of about one month since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The prolonged shutdown was in part due to an unstable supply of power to the region.
Employees of Central Motor Co. , a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corp. , arrive in their cars at a factory in Ohira Town, Miyagi Prefecture, in this photo taken by Kyodo April 18, 2011. Japan's top automakers resumed production at all domestic factories in stages starting on Monday, but output levels will be at half of original plans and at the mercy of parts availability, while fresh power outages further clouded the outlook.
Akiko Nakamura, left, an employee of a convenience store with her daughter Risa, 9, center, and son Takuya, 12, advertise their business for motorists in the area devastated by the March 11 tsunami in the town of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, April 17, 2011. The signs from let read, "Toilet available", "Seven-Eleven Gamominami (store opens for) 10:00-15:00, (selling) rice balls, lunch boxes, bread, sandwiches, drinks, etc.","Seven-Eleven is open."
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) president Masataka Shimizu (C) and company executives bow to evacuees to apologise for the accident at their company's Fukushima daiichi no. 1 nuclear-power plant at a shelter at Koriyama in Fukushima prefecture on April 22, 2011. Families forced to flee their homes by radiation leaks from a tsunami-hit Japanese nuclear-power plant on Friday angrily berated the head of the operator as he apologised for the disaster.
People dressed as Disney characters from the Tokyo Disney Resort greet evacuees at a centre for people effected by the March 11 tsunami and earthquake in Natori, Miyagi prefecture on April 23, 2011. Japan on April 22 announced a $49 billion budget to help fund reconstruction after last month's earthquake and tsunami as Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the country was facing a 'crisis within a crisis'.
Police stand in a cordon blocking protesters during an anti-nuclear demonstration in front of the headquarters of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) in Tokyo on April 23, 2011. The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant is considering installing underground walls around its crippled reactors to prevent radioactive water seeping out, a broadcaster said on April 23. TEPCO is studying the measure to contain contaminated water leaking from the plant's reactors which were damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, TV Asahi said citing unnamed sources.
The carcass of a pig is seen in the rubble in Minamisoma, inside the evacuation zone around the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in this handout picture taken April, 24 and released April 25, 2011 by Japanese lawmaker Tsutomu Takamura. Japan said last week it would ban anyone entering a 20-km (12-mile) evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo, weeks after the earthquake and tsunami-wrecked facility began leaking radiation.
Sea gulls flock over rotten fish piled up to be disposed of in the ocean at Ishinomaki fishing port in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, on April 25, 2011. Some 35,000 tons of fish rotted in storehouses of fisheries in the prefecture because of a power failure after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
The Shinkansen, or bullet train, is seen speeding past temporary houses for survivors of the earthquake and tsunami, in this photo taken by Kyodo in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture April 25, 2011. Bullet train services on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line resumed between Tokyo and Sendai on Monday for the first time since the Miyagi Prefecture capital was severely hit by the March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami, Kyodo news reported.
A villager speaks by portraits of Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, left, and Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu, right, during a rally to demand the government and Tokyo public utility company for compensation and reconstruction at the village of Iitate, in northeastern Japan, on Tuesday April 26, 2011
Villagers punch the air with clenched fists during a rally to demand the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. for compensation and reconstruction at the village of Iitate, in northeastern Japan, on Tuesday April 26, 2011. The village is located outside a 20-kilometer (12 mile) evacuation zone of the radiation-spewing Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, but villagers were asked to move out by the end of May because of relatively high levels of radiation
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