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A fish lies on top of a destroyed car in the earthquake and tsunami leveled town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan.David Guttenfelder

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An elderly woman cries in front of a destroyed building in the devastated town of Rikuzentakata in Iwate prefecture.NICHOLAS KAMM

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A general view shows a car driving through tsunami damage in Natori, Miyagi prefecture.FRED DUFOUR

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A Japanese tsunami survivor gestures as he sit next to his sleeping wife under blankets at a shelter set up in a school of Kesennuma in Miyagi prefecture.NICOLAS ASFOURI

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80-year-old Sumi Abe is helped by emergency workers after being rescued from under the rubble in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture. Sumi and her 16-year-old grandson Jin Abe were found alive on Sunday under the rubble, nine days after the region was devastated by a massive earthquake.HO

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People who evacuated from Futaba, a city near the quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, rest in a space cordoned off with cardboard in a hallway at the evacuees' new shelter Saitama Super Arena, near Tokyo.JO YONG-HAK

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A photo album stands among destroyed houses and debris from the March 11 tsunami and earthquake in the city of Kessennuma in Miyagi prefecture on March 20, 2011. Workers were close to restoring power to a nuclear plant's overheating reactors as the toll of dead or missing from Japan's worst natural disaster in nearly a century neared 21,000.NICOLAS ASFOURI

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A salesclerk announces through a speaker that customers are limited to a shopping time of only 15 minutes each at a supermarket in Sendai in Miyagi prefecture on March 20, 2011. Japan has again detected "abnormal levels" of radiation in milk and spinach.KAZUHIRO NOGI

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