Japan: New Fears as the Tragedy Deepens

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Japan: New fears as the tragedy deepensMarch 15, 2011

• 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.

• A tide of bodies washed up along Japan's coastline Monday, overwhelming crematoriums, exhausting supplies of body bags and adding to the spiraling humanitarian, economic and nuclear crisis after the massive earthquake and tsunami. Millions of people faced a fourth night without water, food or heating in near-freezing temperatures along the northeast coast devastated by Friday's disasters. Meanwhile, a third reactor at a nuclear power plant lost its cooling capacity and its fuel rods were fully exposed, raising fears of a meltdown. The stock market plunged over the likelihood of huge losses by Japanese industries including big names such as Toyota and Honda.

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A Japanese survivor of the earthquake and tsunami rides his bicycle through the leveled city of Minamisanriku, in northeastern Japan.

The rubble caused by an earthquake and tsunami fill the landscape in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

Smoke rises from a coastal area in Ishimaki, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan.

White smokes rises from burning houses in Yamadamachi in Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan.

A ship washed away by tsunami sits amid debris in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture.

Smoke rise from an oil refinery on fire following a tsunami triggered by a strong earthquake in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan.

Smoke billows from fires raging at the port in Tagajo, Miyagi prefecture. Japan battled a feared meltdown of two reactors at a quake-hit nuclear plant, as the full horror of the disaster emerged on the ravaged northeast coast where more than 10,000 were feared dead.

Rescuers conduct search operation amidst smoldering debris in Kesennuma, northern Japan.

This aerial shot shows a pleasure boat sitting on top of a building amid a sea of debris in Otsuchi town in Iwate prefecture.

A man takes a picture of the aftermath of a tsunami following Friday's massive earthquake in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan.

Rescue workers search through ruins of the devastated residential area of tsunami hit Otsuchi.

Gutted vehicles and the rubble is seen in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan.

Tsunami debris is scattered over a devastated area of Sendai, Miyagi prefecture.

A private plane washed inshore by the tsunami sits in water and debris next to cars outside Sendai Airport in Natori, Miyage prefecture.

People walk in the rubble in Minamisanriku town, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan.

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

Buildings are covered with mud in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan.

A vehicle is buried in mud and debris after it was washed away by tsunami in Sendai, northern Japan.

An SOS sign is written on the ground of Shizugawa High School in Minamisanrikucho in Miyagi Prefecture (state), northern Japan.

Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force walk in a deployment line as they search tsunami damaged parts of Ofunato, Japan.

An elder couple looks at a collapsed house damage after being hit by a tsunami in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture.

Tsunami debris is scattered over a devastated area of Sendai, Miyagi prefecture.

People evacuate from the flooded airport terminal building of Sendai airport with rubber boats at Natori city in Miyagi prefecture.

Local residents pass through a devastated street in Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture.

A stranded elderly woman is carried on the back of a Japanese soldier after being rescued from a residence at Kesennuma, northeastern Japan.

Upon hearing another tsunami warning, a father tries to flee for safety with his just reunited four-month-old baby girl who was spotted by Japan's Self-Defense Force member in the rubble of tsunami-torn Ishinomaki.

Neena Sasaki, 5, carries some of the family belongings from her home that was destroyed after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

Two women walk in a tsunami devastated street in Hishonomaki, Miyagi prefecture.

A patient in a wheelchair is helped by attendants as they evacuate from a tsunami-affected hospital at Otsuchi, northeastern Japan.

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.

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.

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

A boat lies in a street after being washed ashore by the recent tsunami in Hishonomaki, Miyagi prefecture.

Parents look at the body of their daughter they found in a courtesy vehicle of a driving school that's smashed by a tsunami at Yamamoto, northeastern Japan.

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

A woman searches through the rubble of her home destroyed in Friday's powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, northern Japan.

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.

Soldiers and a rescue worker carry the body of a victim through Kesennuma City.

Rescue workers spray water on a damaged building still smoldering after the 9.0 magnitude strong earthquake.

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

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.

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force 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, three days after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the country's north east coast.

A construction laborer controls the traffic at a devastated area in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan.

Local men try to break open a safe they said washed away from their restaurant in Ofunato, Japan.

Soldiers and a rescue worker carry the body of a resident through Kesennuma City

Japanese military walk by a body lying in the rubble of a village destroyed in Rikuzentakata, Miyagi province.

A man stands amidst the destruction in Kesennuma City.

A mother and her daughter leave a devastated area in Otsuchi, northern Japan.

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.

Family photo albums lie in the ruins of the devastated residential area of tsunami hit Otsuchi.

Ships are left aground among destroyed houses in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture.

A man comforts a woman as she cries in front of her damaged home in the town of Watari in Miyagi prefecture.

Evacuees are screened for radiation exposure at a testing center, March 15, 2011, in Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan.

Evacuees are screened for radiation contamination at a testing center.

A group of Chinese citizens at the City Hall await transport to leave the tsunami devastated city of Sendai, Miyagi prefecture.

Evacuees crowd a makeshift shelter in Fukushima, northern Japan.

Evacuees from radiation leaking from the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant take a rest at a shelter in Fukushima, northern Japan.

A woman reunites with her relatives at a shelter for the first time after an earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata in Iwate prefecture.

Women cry together after hearing the death of family members at an evacuation center in Kesennuma in Miyagi prefecture (state).

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