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Monday, March 14, 2011

Tsunami - Japan hit by huge earthquake

Residents head to search for missing people in Yamada, northern Japan Monday, March 14, 2011 following Friday's massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

Takajo, Japan - Rescuers used chain saws and took charge of the excavation Monday through bodies in Japan have wreaked havoc in coastal cities such as Asia's richest nation is facing a humanitarian crisis, nuclear power and sound after an earthquake and tsunami that has probably killed thousands.

Millions of people spent their third night without water, food or heating at temperatures close to zero along the northeast coast is devastated. Meanwhile, a third reactor at a nuclear power plant lost its cooling capacity, fears of a collapse and the stock market fell more than the probability of large losses of Japanese industry, including big names like Toyota and Honda.

Japanese police said that 1,000 bodies were washed scattered along the coast on Monday, Miyagi Prefecture.

The official requested anonymity, quoted the ministry's policy. He said the police chief of Miyagi inspect areas of a helicopter on Monday.

The discovery raises the official death toll around 2800, but said the police chief Miyagi than 10,000 people are estimated to have died alone in his province.

The tragedy on Friday with two heads has unimaginable difficulties for the population of industrialized countries has no such problems since the Second World War caused seen. In many areas there is no running water, no electricity and four fifty-six hours waiting for gasoline. People are on hunger strike with instant noodles or rice balls, while to deal with the loss of loved ones and homes.

"People survive with little food and water. Things are not easy to find," said Hajime Sato, a government official in Iwate prefecture, one of the three most affected.

He said authorities were only 10 percent of food and other supplies they need to get it. Also body bags and coffins so short that the government is seeking support abroad funeral, "he said.

"We have asked the funeral home across the country, our many-body bags and coffins. But I just do not have enough," he told The Associated Press. "We did not expect something to happen. It's just huge."


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