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The massive tsunami engulfs a residential area after a powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in north-eastern Japan on 11 March, 2011. (Kyodo/PA Images)
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Buildings burn in Yamada town, Iwate prefecture after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake struck on 11 March, 2011. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun/PA Images)
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A Kyodo News helicopter captured this photo of a whirlpool caused by the tsunami near a port in Oarai, Ibaraki Prefecture on March 11, 2011. (Kyodo/PA Images)
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Rescue workers carry an elderly woman who had evacuated to the rooftop of an elementary school onto a Sapporo City fire department helicopter in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture on 12 March 2011. (Kyodo/PA Images)
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A large vessel is seen stranded among ruins in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture a day after the tsunami struck. (Kyodo/PA Images)
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One woman stands on a street and inspects the aftermath of the massive tsunami triggered by the 11 March earthquake in Tagajo near Sendai, northern Japan. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa/PA Images)
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Checking messages for families and friends posted on a board at an evacuation shelter in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture the day after the earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo/PA Images)
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A man searches for a family member in the ruins of tsunami-hit area in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture a week after the earthquake. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama/PA Images)
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People walk through debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, two days after the massive earthquake and tsunami destroyed the city. (Kyodo/PA Images)
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A resident wipes tears as she finds no remains of her home in Soma city, Fukushima prefecture three days after disaster struck in March 2011. (AP Photo/Wally Santana/PA Images)
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Members of Japan's self-defence forces wear protective gear and prepare for radioactive decontamination in Nihommatsu, Fukushima Prefecture on 15 March, 2011, after high levels of radiation were detected in the area. (Kyodo/PA Images)
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Evacuees are screened for radiation contamination at a testing center in Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture on 15 March 2011. (AP Photo/Wally Santana/PA Images)
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A passenger ship left on top of a building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture by the tsunami. (Kyodo/PA Images)
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Ritsuko Oikawa, 84, walks in the rubble towards the ruins of her house in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi/PA Images)
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A tsunami survivor walks through a street in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture flanked by the rubble of houses and a boat. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi/PA Images)
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This photo taken one month after the disasters shows Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, where ships remain abandoned on land after being swept ashore. (Kyodo/PA Images)
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Weeks after the tsunami and earthquake, Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force searches for missing persons at a point some 4.5km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the town of Namie. (Kyodo/PA Images)
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This pictures shows the tsunami, triggered by a powerful earthquake, approaching the fuel oil tanks of the No 5 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on 11 March, 2011. (TEPCO/Kyodo/PA Images)
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Dogs run around a town of Minami Soma, inside the deserted evacuation zone established around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae/PA Images)
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Residents wait for rescuers on the balcony of the debris-dangling house in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture on 12 March, 2011 (left). The same building, right, with the debris almost cleared as photographed on 3 June, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News/PA Images)
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