Sixty-year-old survivor Hiromitsu Shinkawa who was swept out to sea by a tsunami is seen as crew members of Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force. REUTERS / JMSDF

Elderly people warm themselves with blankets at a Japanese Red Cross hospital after being evacuated from the area hit by tsunami in Ishinomaki. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

A girl who has been isolated at a makeshift facility to screen, cleanse and isolate people with high radiation levels, looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

A man rides a bicycle at an area hit by earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, north Japan. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

A doctor talks to evacuees from the vicinity of Fukushima nuclear plant, at an evacuation center set in a gymnasium in Yamagata, northern Japan. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

A view shows cars and buildings wrecked by last week's earthquake and tsunami outside Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan. REUTERS/Yegor Trubnikov

Ducks swim past a submerged vehicle after the earthquake and tsunami in Yamada town, Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

A fisherman (R) repairs his fishing net, which he retrieved from tsunami debris at a damaged fishing port by March 11's magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Employees of Fukushima prefecture's agricultural industry department walk on the dried-up rice paddy which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Soma, about 50km from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. REUTERS/Issei Kato

Sixty-three-year-old Shukuko Kuzumi measures radiation near her cake shop in Iwaki, about 50 km south of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture. REUTERS/Issei Kato

Children, who were evacuated from Okuma town, walk at a temporary housing complex in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima prefecture. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Buddhist monks offer prayers for victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami at Kitaizumi beach in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, some 25 km (15 miles) from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

Wakana Kumagai, 7, visits the spot where her house, which was washed away by the March 11, 2011 tsunami, used to stand in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

A man looks for his photographs at a collection centre for items which were found in the rubble of an area devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. REUTERS/Toru Hanai













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