DATELINE - JAPAN

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People search a boat that was washed inland that lays in the rubble in Rikuzentakata, northern Japan, March 14, 2011. (Toru Hanai/Reuters) #

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Rescue workers look for missing people who were lost in the tsunami, in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 14, 2011. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Elderly people who evacuated from a town near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant read newspapers at a shelter in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Monday March 14, 2011. (Associated Press/Kyodo News) #

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A survivor of the tsunami that swept through his village of Saito, in northeastern Japan, retells the story to a rescue team that arrived to search the area Monday, March 14, 2011. Rescue workers used chain saws and hand picks Monday to dig out bodies in Japan’s devastated coastal towns, as Asia’s richest nation faced a mounting humanitarian, nuclear and economic crisis in the aftermath of a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed thousands. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press) #

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Japanese rescue workers carry the body of a tsunami victim in devastated town of Otsuchi March 14, 2011. In the town of Otsuchi in Iwate prefecture, 12,000 out of a population of 15,000 are believed to have disappeared following Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) #

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A Japanese rescue worker walks through a destroyed residential area of tsunami-hit Otsuchi March 14, 2011. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) #

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A survivor pushes his bicycle through remains of devastated town of Otsuchi March 14, 2011. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) #

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Japanese rescue team members carry the body of a man from the village of Saito, in northeastern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. Rescue workers used chain saws and hand picks Monday to dig out bodies in Japan’s devastated coastal towns. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press) #

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Soldiers inspect the devastated area before they use heavy machinery in Noda village, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. (Associated Press/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Yoichi Hayashi) #

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A photograph amidst rubble in Higashimatsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan, March 14, 2011. (Reuters/Kyodo News) #

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Japanese soldiers urge an elderly woman to move to higher ground during a tsunami warning Monday, March 14, 2011, in the harbor of Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. (Wally Santana/Associated Press) #

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A Japanese man walks through a destroyed residential area of tsunami-hit Otsuchi March 14, 2011. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) #

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An emergency worker throws disinfectant powder in an area affected by an earthquake and tsunami in Miyako, Iwate prefecture March 14, 2011. (Aly Song Reuters) #

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A Japanese rescue team member walks through the completely leveled village of Saito in northeastern Japan Monday, March 14, 2011. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press) #

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Rescue workers move the body of a patient through the halls of a hospital in Minamisanriku town on March 14, 2011. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) #

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Debris is strewn across a large area of land in Natori City, Miyagi prefecture on March 14, 2011. (Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A joint team from the U.S. Air Force and Marines conduct a search and rescue flight over Sendai airport in this U.S. Air Force handout photo dated March 13, 2011. The team is part of the American disaster relief force in Japan to assist with the earthquake and tsunami recovery effort. (Picture taken March 13, 2011) (US Air Force/Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse/Handout/Reuters) #

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Images provided by GeoEye show an area of Natori, Japan on April 4, 2010, left, and March 12, 2011. (GeoEye/Associated Press) #

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Images provided by GeoEye show the Arahama area of Sendai, Japan on April 10, 2010, left, and March 12, 2011. (GeoEye/Associated Press) #

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Images provided by GeoEye show an area of Yuriage near Miyagi Prefecture, Japan on April 4, 2010, left, and March 12, 2011. (GeoEye/Associated Press) #

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Still images from video footage March 14, 2011, shows the explosion at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex. A hydrogen explosion rocked a crippled nuclear power plant in Japan on Monday where authorities have been scrambling to avert a meltdown following Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami. (NTV via Reuters TV/Reuters) #

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A man comforts a woman as she cries in front of her damaged home in the town of Watari in Miyagi prefecture on March 14, 2011. (Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Rescue members seek survivors in Rikuzentakata, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. (The Yomiuri Shimbun, Masamine Kawaguchi/Associated Press) #

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Rescue workers carry an elderly man found alive by tsunami survivors buried under rubble along a slope of a hill in Minamisanrikucho in Iwate Prefecture Monday, March 14, 2011. (The Yomiuri Shimbun, Hiroaki Ohno/Associated Press) #

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A boy walks through the rubble in Rikuzentakata, northern Japan, March 14, 2011. (Toru Hanai/Reuters) #

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A resident wipes tears as she finds no remains of her home, Monday, March 14, 2011, in Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. (Wally Santana/Associated Press) #

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A girl’s shoe sits in flood debris Monday, March 14, 2011, in the coastal area of Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. (Wally Santana/Associated Press) #