Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami

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Keijo Nakamura and his wife, Haruka, react as they stand on the remains of a dead relative's home after the house was washed away by the tsunami in Ofunato, March 15, 2011. Two search and rescue teams from the U.S. and a team from the U.K. with combined numbers of around 220 personnel, searched damaged areas of the town of Ofunato for trapped survivors Tuesday in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami.

Japanese recovery officials search through the ruins of the leveled city of Minamisanriku, in northeastern Japan, March 15, 2011.

 

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British search and rescue workers search under a roof removed from a house for survivors of the tsunami in Ofunato, Japan, March 15, 2011.

A man stands amidst the destruction in Kesennuma City on March 15, 2011, days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.

 

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A woman who lost her mother and her three-year-old son reacts after she confirmed their bodies under the rubble of her house in Miyako.

Members of Japan's Self Defense Force walk past the body of a woman at an area hit by an earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, March 15, 2011.

 

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Japanese survivors of Friday's earthquake and tsunami walk under umbrellas through the leveled city of Minamisanriku, in northeastern Japan, March 15, 2011.

Soldiers and a rescue worker carry the body of a victim through Kesennuma City on March 15, 2011.

Soldiers carry the body of a victim as others prepare to retrieve more in Kesennuma City on March 15, 2011.

 

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The bodies of victims are covered by blankets at a village destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata in Iwate prefecture, northeast Japan, March 15, 2011.

Two women walk in a tsunami devastated street in Hishonomaki, Miyagi prefecture on March 15, 2011.

 

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Local residents pass through a devastated street in Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture after the recent tsunami and earthquake, on March 15, 2011.

Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force walk in a deployment line as they search tsunami damaged parts of Ofunato, Japan, March 15, 2011. Two search and rescue teams from the U.S. and a team from the U.K. with combined numbers of around 220 personnel, searched damaged areas of the town of Ofunato for trapped survivors Tuesday in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami.

 

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japanese emperor

Why did they stick the head of the emperor to a smaller body?

 

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Vehicle headlamps illuminate the disaster area of Yamada town in Iwate prefecture on March 16. The official toll of the dead and missing following a devastating earthquake and tsunami that flattened Japan's northeast coast has topped 11,000, with 3,676 confirmed dead.

Yukie Ito (left), tries to comfort her daughter Hana, 8, with grandmother Tamiyo at a cold refugee center for the homeless March 16 in Kesennuma, Miyagi province.

 

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Rishiko reacts after visiting her home in the rubble of a village destroyed by the devastating earthquake and tsunami March 16 in Kesennuma, Miyagi province.

In this handout image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a house is seen adrift off the coast of northeastern Japan from a HH-60G helicopter surveying the damage stricken area as part of Japan's earthquake and tsunami recovery effort March 14.

 

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Elderly people drink hot tea at a shelter at Yamada town in Iwate prefecture on March 16.

The 4,724-ton freighter M.V. Asia Symphony lies on a pier after being hit by the tsunami at the port in Kamaishi city, Iwate prefecture on March 16. All 17 Filipino crew (next picture) are safe and living at an emergency shelter near the port.

 

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Survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the eastern coast of Japan rest in the Miyako Shogako school sports hall, used as a shelter for evacuees, in Miyako town on March 16.

Policemen carry the bodies of victims retrieved from the debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 16

 

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Damage caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami is seen from a hill overlooking the city of Kesennuma on March 16.

Japanese Self Defence Force soldiers search for people missing from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in a river bed in Miyako in Iwate prefecture on March 16.

 

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A survivor warms himself by a fire at an emergency shelter in Otsuchi March 16. In the fishing town of Otsuchi in Iwate prefecture, 12,000 out of a population of 15,000 have disappeared following Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami.

People crowd a long-distance bus terminal in front of Sendai Railway Station to leave the earthquake and tsunami-hit town of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 16. Railway services have been cancelled since the earthquakes around the area.

People watch a television broadcasting Japan's Emperor Akihito's televised address to the nation at an electronics retail store in Tokyo March 16. Japanese Emperor Akihito said on Wednesday that problems at Japan's nuclear-power reactors were unpredictable and he was "deeply worried" following an earthquake he described as "unprecedented in scale". It was an extraordinarily rare appearance by the emperor and his first public comments since last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands of people

 

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A man checks a list of evacuated people at a shelter in Rikuzentakada, in Iwate prefecture, on March 16.

People stay close to the heater at a shelter at Yamada town in Iwate prefecture on March 16.

A rescue worker wipes his forehead after carrying a body from the rubble of a village destroyed by the devastating earthquake, fires and tsunami March 16, 2011 in Kesennuma, Miyagi province

 

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Chieko Chiba walks through the rubble after going to see her destroyed home March 16, 2011 in Kesennuma, Miyagi province.

People shop for food at a big-box supermarket in Tokyo March 16. Public trust in the Japanese government faces its biggest test since WWII over the handling of the nation's nuclear crisis, raising concerns that a breakdown in confidence could fuel panic and chaos if appeals for calm go unheeded. Foreigners are leaving Tokyo, or shutting themselves indoors, and supermarket shelves are running empty despite authorities assuring citizens there is no need to panic from the crisis unfolding at a quake-stricken nuclear power plant.

An official in a full radiation protection suit scans an evacuated woman and her dog with a geiger counter in Koriyama city in Fukushima prefecture, about 60km west from the crisis-hit Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) Fukushima Nuclear plant, on March 16, 2011. A fresh fire broke out at the quake-hit Japanese atomic power plant in Fukushima early on March 16.

 

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Medical staff use a Geiger counter to screen a woman for possible radiation exposure at a public welfare center in Hitachi City, Ibaraki, March 16, after she was evacuated from an area within a 12.4 mile radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

A car lies among debris swept inland by the tsunami following the earthquake in Minami Sanriku, Miyagi prefecture.

Rescue workers search for a body after digging a car out of the debris in Minamisanriku town, Miyagi Prefecture, March 16.

 

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An elderly man and woman push a cart carrying their salvaged belongings in Miyako, in Iwate prefecture, on March 16.

Japanese soldiers check for bodies in the water in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, on March 16.

Evacuees read a newspaper carrying stories on the massive earthquake and tsunami at a shelter in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 15. Japan's government on March 15 urged people against panic-buying of food and supplies, as the country grapples with an earthquake and tsunami and resulting nuclear crisis.

 

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A family wearing face masks prepares to leave Tokyo on the Shinkansen bullet train at Tokyo station on March 16. Nuclear radiation fears and the threat of another earthquake have prompted many mothers with young children to leave Tokyo by any means possible. Despite Japan's reassurance of radiation levels being below hazardous, several airlines have stopped flights into Tokyo and a number of companies are evacuating foreign nationals.

A town clock lies stopped at 03:00 p.m. in the tsunami-devastated city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan on Tuesday.The strong magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, and the first wave of tsunamis reached the city at 3:01 p.m.

 

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A couple walks under falling snow amongst the rubble in Yamada, Iwate prefecture

The Japanese town of Ishinomake is flooded and the city's downtown are remains deserted.

 

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An elderly woman covers her face in reaction to learning her house was swept away by the tsunami.

Japanese Medical personnel check a child for radiation exposure

Hundres of people is line up to wait for food at a supermarket.