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Japan - Vast Devastation

The vast devastation wrought by the earthquake and resulting tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, may only be matched by the destroyed lives left in their wake. Few survivors have been found, but families continue to search for their sons, daughters, wives, husbands and friends. Threats of a nuclear reactor meltdown and resulting disaster loom. -- Paula Nelson (51 photos total)

The rubble caused by an earthquake and tsunami fill the landscape in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by an earthquake and tsunami. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)

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A soldier holds a four-month-old baby who survived the tsunami with her family at Ishinomaki city in Miyagi prefecture on March 14, 2011. (Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A man cycles by a ship at Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit Japan's east coast. (Shizuo Kambayashi/Associated Press) #

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A member of Japan Air Self-Defense Force rescues a victim in Ishinomaki, northern Japan, two days (Sunday, March 13, 2011) after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast. (The Yomiuri Shimbun, Makoto Kondo/Associated Press) #

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Houses and infrastructures devastated by a strong earthquake and tsunami in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Monday March 14, 2011. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)#

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Vessels float on oil spilled water in Fudai, Iwate, northern Japan Monday, March 14, 201. (Associated Press/Yomiuri Shimbun, Hiroshi Adachi) #

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An aerial taken on March 14, 2011 during an AFP-chartered flight shows an area destroyed by the tsunami in Sendai in Miyagi prefecture three days after a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami devastated the coast of eastern Japan. (Noboru Hashimoto/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Houses and infrastructures devastated by earthquake and tsunami in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Monday, March 14, 2011. (Associated Press/Kyodo News) #

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Survivors of Friday's earthquake and tsunami spend time at an evacuation center in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. (Park Ji-ho, Yonhap/Associated Press) #

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People rest in an evacuation centre near Rikuzentakata, northern Japan, March 14, 2011. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters) #

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People walk a road between the rubble of destroyed buildings in Minamisanriku town, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. (The Yomiuri Shimbun, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto/Associated Press) #

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A family rests in a shelter in Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. three days after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the country's north east coast. On top of the losses of family and friends and property, evacuees in the area are now faced with the fears of radiation contamination from damaged nuclear facilities near by. (Wally Santana/Associated Press) #

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Residents buy food at a temporarily opened supermarket in Sendai, northeastern Japan March 14, 2011. The supermarket set a limit on buying items at five per person. Japan battled on Monday to prevent a nuclear catastrophe and to care for millions of people without power or water in its worst crisis since World War II. (Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters) #

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Evacuees line up for meals in a shelter in Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. (Wally Santana/Associated Press) #

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A technician in protective gear looks out an automatic door with signs reading "No entry except for those with permission" at a makeshift facility to screen, cleanse and isolate people with high radiation levels in Nihonmatsu, northern Japan March 14, 2011. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters) #

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People queue to be screened by a technician in protective gear for signs of possible radiation in Nihonmatsu, northern Japan, March 14, 2011. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters) #

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Technicians scan Red Cross rescue workers for signs of radiation in Nagahama City, Shiga Prefecture in northern Japan, March 14, 2011. (Reuters/Kyodo) #

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People use temporary phones set up for residents at the Natori City Hall in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture on March 14, 2011. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Survivors scan a list of people missing since Friday's massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami at an evacuation center in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. (Park Ji-ho, Yonhap/Associated Press) #

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People check lists for survivors at an evacuation centre in in Natori City in Miyagi prefecture on March 14, 2011. A new explosion at a nuclear plant in nearby Fukushima prefecture hit Japan on March 14 as it raced to avert a reactor meltdown. (Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Evacuees hug each other as they confirm each other's safety at a makeshift shelter in Otsuchicho town, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. (The Yomiuri Shimbun, Yasuhiro Takami/Associated Press) #

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A car sits atop another in an area affected by an earthquake and tsunami in Miyako, Iwate prefecture March 14, 2011. (Aly Song/Reuters) #

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A man walks along a road lined with debris at Onagawa town in Miyagi prefecture on March 14, 2011. (Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A pleasure boat sits on top of a building amid a sea of debris in Otsuchi town in Iwate prefecture on March 14, 2011. (Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP/Getty Images) #

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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) #

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Japan: New fears as the tragedy deepens

Continued aftershocks and new earthquakes bring new fears to the survivors of the tragedy. Residents prepare for radiation leaks as the Prime Minister asks everyone to remain indoors - in their homes, their offices and shelters. Ninety one countries have offered help to Japan. Search and rescue and recovery continue in the devastated landscape. The death toll rises, but some hope is realized in the reunions of family and friends. -- Paula Nelson (52 photos total)

Evacuees are screened for radiation contamination at a testing center, March 15, 2011, in Koriyama city, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan. (Wally Santana/Associated Press)

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A baby is tested for radiation in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, March 15, 2011. Panic swept Tokyo on Tuesday after a rise in radioactive levels around an earthquake-hit nuclear power plant north of the city, causing some to leave the capital or stock up on food and supplies. (Reuters/Kyodo) #

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A radiation detector marks 0.6 microsieverts, exceeding normal day data, March 15, 2011, near Shibuya train station in Tokyo. (Associated Press/Kyodo News) #

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An official wearing a protective suit helps usher people through a radiation emergency scanning center in Koriyama, Japan, March 15, 2011. (Mark Baker/Associated Press) #

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Officials, wearing clothing to protect against radiation, direct people to a center to scan residents who have been within 20 kilometers of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant damaged by Friday's earthquake, March 15, 2011, in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. (Gregory Bull/Associated Press) #

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Evacuees are screened for radiation exposure at a testing center, March 15, 2011, in Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, after a nuclear power plant on the coast of the prefecture was damaged by Friday's earthquake. (Wally Santana/Associated Press) #

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People queue up for buses at a station to get out of the city in Yamagata, Yamagata prefecture on March 15, 2011. Explosions and a fire at Japan's quake-hit nuclear plant in neighboring Fukushima prefecture unleashed dangerous radiation on March 15. (Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A woman leaves a center to scan residents, who have been within 20 kilometers of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant damaged by Friday's earthquake, carrying a metal heat blanket, March 15, 2011, in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. (Gregory Bull/Associated Press) #

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Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers, mobilized to wash away radioactive material emitted from a nuclear power plant damaged by Friday's earthquake, put on protective gear on their arrival in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, March 15, 2011. (Associated Press/Kyodo News) #

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A group of Chinese citizens at the City Hall await transport to leave the tsunami devastated city of Sendai, Miyagi prefecture on March 15, 2011. 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. (Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Evacuees from radiation leaking from the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant take a rest at a shelter in Fukushima, northern Japan, March 15, 2011.(The Yomiuri Shimbun, Shuhei Yokoyama/Associated Press) #

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A woman reacts at the news of her relative's death in an evacuation shelter for survivors of Friday's earthquake and tsunami, March 15, 2011, in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. (Associated Press/Kyodo News) #

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People wait to receive medical treatment at a shelter for earthquake and tsunami evacuees in Rikuzentakata in Iwate prefecture, northeast Japan, March 15, 2011. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters) #

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Survivors listen about ongoing recovery operations at an evacuation center in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, March 15, 2011. (Shuji Kajiyama/Associated Press) #

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Two elderly couples greet each other at a shelter as they reunite, March 15, 2011. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters) #

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Displaced residents sit on mats at an evacuation center after leaving their coastal homes in Sendai, Miyagi on March 15, 2011. (Mike Clarke/Getty Images) #

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A woman reunites with her relatives at a shelter for the first time after an earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata in Iwate prefecture, March 15, 2011. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters) #

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People receive emergency clothing aid at a makeshift shelter in Fukushima, March 15, 2011. (Associated Press/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Shuhei Yokoyama) #

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An evacuee reacts after being reunited with her daughter and her brother at a shelter in Rikuzentakata, Iwate, March 15, 2022. Masahiro Ogawa/Associated Press) #

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Evacuees exercise at a makeshift shelter in Minamisanriku, northern Japan, March 15, 2011. (Associated/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto) #

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Residents eat emergency rations in a candle-lit shelter after leaving their tsunami devastated areas, in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture on March 15, 2011. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A man shops in a convenience store where shelves on food aisles are left empty in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, March 15, 2011. (Shizuo Kambayashi/Associated Press) #

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Evacuees crowd a makeshift shelter in Fukushima, northern Japan, March 15, 2011. Some 70,000 people have been evacuated from a 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius from the Dai-ichi complex. (Associated Press/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Koichi Nakamura) #

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A Japanese survivor of the earthquake and tsunami rides his bicycle through the leveled city of Minamisanriku, in northeastern Japan, March 15, 2011. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press) #

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Rescue workers spray water on a damaged building still smoldering after the 9.0 magnitude strong earthquake struck on March 11 off the coast of north-eastern Japan, March 14, 2011 in Miyagi, Japan. The death toll continues to rise with fears that the official death count could well reach up to 10,000. (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images) #

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Tsunami debris is scattered over a devastated area of Sendai, Miyagi prefecture. (March 14, 2011) (STR/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Japanese rescue workers pour over a map of Ofunato before beginning operations in the devastated city on March 15, 2011. Rescue teams from the US, Britain and China began assisting in the search for survivors. (Nocholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Members of the Chinese International Search and Rescue Team (CISAR) search for victims inside a ruined house at the quake-shaken Ofunato city in Iwate prefecture, March 15, 2011. (Associated Press/Xinhua, Lui Siu Wai) #

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Rescuers end the day's search operation in the area hard hit by earthquake-triggered tsunami in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, March 15, 2011. (Associated Press/Junji Kurokawa) #

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British search and rescue team member Rob Furniss and his search dog Byron try to find any trapped people still alive in a building in 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 in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami. (Matt Dunham/Associated Press) #

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A mother and her daughter leave a devastated area in Otsuchi, northern Japan, March 15, 2011. They said there was nothing left where their home used to be. (Associated Press/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Yoichi Hayashi) #

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Soldiers and a rescue worker carry the body of a resident through Kesennuma City on March 15, 2011, days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) #

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The Sasaki family carry some of their personal belongings from their home that was destroyed after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, March 15, 2011 in Rikuzentakata, Miyagi province. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) #

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Neena Sasaki, 5, carries some of the family belongings from her home that was destroyed after the devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 15, 2011 in Rikuzentakata, Miyagi province. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) #

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Japanese military walk by a body lying in the rubble of a village destroyed, March 15, 2011 in Rikuzentakata, Miyagi province. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) #

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Family photo albums lie in the ruins of the devastated residential area of tsunami hit Otsuchi March 15, 2011. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) #

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Rescue workers search through ruins of the devastated residential area of tsunami hit Otsuchi March 15, 2011. (Aly Song/Reuters) #

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A young Japanese survivor of the earthquake and tsunami searches her family home for any belongings she can find in the leveled city of Minamisanriku, in northeastern Japan, March 15, 2011. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press) #

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Tsunami debris is scattered over a devastated area of Sendai, Miyagi prefecture. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) #

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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. (Matt Dunham/Associated Press) #

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Japanese recovery officials search through the ruins of the leveled city of Minamisanriku, in northeastern Japan, March 15, 2011. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press) #

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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. (Matt Dunham/Associated Press) #

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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. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) #

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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. (March 14, 2011) (Associated Press/Mainichi Shimbun, Daisuke Wada) #

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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. (Toru Hanai/Reuters) #

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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. David Guttenfelder/Associated Press) #

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Soldiers and a rescue worker carry the body of a victim through Kesennuma City on March 15, 2011. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) #

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Soldiers carry the body of a victim as others prepare to retrieve more in Kesennuma City on March 15, 2011. (Adrees Latif/Retuers) #

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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. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters) #

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Two women walk in a tsunami devastated street in Hishonomaki, Miyagi prefecture on March 15, 2011. (Philippe LopezAFP/Getty Images) #

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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. (Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP/Getty Images) #

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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. (Matt Dunham/Associated Press) #

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Japan: Continuing crisis

As if conditions for survivors and emergency workers weren't bad enough after the massive earthquake and tsunami, snow fell today in chilly Northern Japan. The dire situation prompted the first-ever televised address to the nation from Emperor Akihito, who made no such speech even after the Kobe earthquake in 1995. As aid and personnel poured into Japan, the nuclear crisis prompted neighboring countries to step up inspections of Japanese foods, and prompted governments worldwide to study their own nuclear energy policies. Meanwhile the grim work of recovery continued. -- Lane Turner (28 photos total)

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. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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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. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) #

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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. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) #

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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. (U.S. Air Force via Getty Images) #

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Elderly people drink hot tea at a shelter at Yamada town in Iwate prefecture on March 16. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) #

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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. (Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A Filipino freighter crew sits in a shelter in Kamaishi city, Iwate prefecture on March 16. Their ship M.V. Asia Symphony (previous picture) was carried onto the pier after being hit by the tsunami. (Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Japanese Defense Force members load tsunami relief goods at the port in Kamaishi city, Iwate prefecture on March 16. (Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images) #

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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. (Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images) #

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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. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) #

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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. (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images) #

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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. (Takashi Noguchi/AFP/Getty Images) #

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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. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) #

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A doll lies on the ground after the March 11 tsunami and earthquake in Natori in Miyagi Prefecture on March 16. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images) #

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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. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images) #

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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. (Issei Kato/Reuters) #

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A man checks a list of evacuated people at a shelter in Rikuzentakada, in Iwate prefecture, on March 16. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) #

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People stay close to the heater at a shelter at Yamada town in Iwate prefecture on March 16. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) #

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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. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) #

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Chieko Chiba walks through the rubble after going to see her destroyed home March 16, 2011 in Kesennuma, Miyagi province. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) #

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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. (Issei Kato/Reuters) #

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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. (Ken Shimizu/AFP/Getty Images) #

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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. (Asahi Shimbun/Reuters) #

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A car lies among debris swept inland by the tsunami following the earthquake in Minami Sanriku, Miyagi prefecture. (Robert Gilhooly/Bloomberg) #

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Rescue workers search for a body after digging a car out of the debris in Minamisanriku town, Miyagi Prefecture, March 16. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters) #

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An elderly man and woman push a cart carrying their salvaged belongings in Miyako, in Iwate prefecture, on March 16. (Takashi Noguchi/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Japanese soldiers check for bodies in the water in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, on March 16. (Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images) #

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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. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images) #