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Villagers walk across sea of debris after they visited their homes, which were destroyed by Friday's tsunami, in Minamisanriku, in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture, on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Japan's strongest recorded earthquake and subsequent tsunami slammed the country's eastern coast. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

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A member of a British rescue team searches for victims in the tsunami-hit area in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, four days after the disastrous earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

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People walk along a road between the rubble of destroyed buildings in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan on Monday. (Yomiuri Shimbun via Associated Press)

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An evacuee searches name lists for friends in Soma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on Monday. On top of the losses of family and friends, evacuees are now faced with the fears of radiation contamination from damaged nuclear facilities. (Associated Press)

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Evacuees gather around candlelight at a blacked-out shelter in Yamamoto, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan on Monday, three days after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)

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A man checks out a stock price board in Tokyo on Monday as the stock market plunged on its first business day after an earthquake and tsunami laid waste to cities along Japan's northeast coast. (Associated Press)

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Rescue workers carry an elderly man found alive by tsunami survivors after he was buried under rubble along a slope of a hill in Minamisanriku in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's northeast coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Hiroaki Ohno)

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A firefighter examines the damage of a house in Saito, in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture, on Monday, March 14, 2011, after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake slammed the country's eastern coast Friday. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

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A ferry is stranded atop a building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, in northern Japan on Sunday, March 13, 2011, two days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun)

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Natori, Japan, is seen in combination of photos by GeoEye. The photo on the left was taken April 4, 2010; the photo on right was taken Saturday, March 12, 2011, one day after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck the Oshika Peninsula. (AP Photo/GeoEye)

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In this image made from Japan's NTV/NNN Japan television footage, flames from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's Unit 3 rise in Okumamachi, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011. The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked the stricken nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 11 workers. (AP Photo/NTV/NNN Japan)

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In this image made frp, Japan's NTV/NNN Japan television footage, smoke ascends from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's Unit 3 in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, in northern Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011. The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan's stricken nuclear plant, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 11 workers. (AP Photo/NTV/NNN Japan)

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Police lead rescue teams in the search for survivors among the damaged buildings and tsunami debris in Rikuzentakada, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011. Workers battled to prevent a nuclear meltdown after a second blast rocked an atomic plant north of Tokyo, as helicopters and convoys of army trucks headed toward areas hit hardest by Japan's strongest earthquake. (Koichi Kamoshida/Bloomberg)

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A fuel tanker sits submerged in water next to tsunami-damaged buildings in Rikuzentakada, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011. Workers battled to prevent a nuclear meltdown after a second blast rocked an atomic plant north of Tokyo, as helicopters and convoys of army trucks headed toward areas hardest hit by Japan's strongest earthquake. (Koichi Kamoshida/Bloomberg)

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Police lead rescue teams in the search for survivors among the damaged buildings and tsunami debris in Rikuzentakada, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011. Workers battled to prevent a nuclear meltdown after a second blast rocked an atomic plant north of Tokyo, as helicopters and convoys of army trucks headed toward areas worst hit by Japan's strongest earthquake. (Koichi Kamoshida/Bloomberg)

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A man bicycles by a beached ship at Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit Japan's east coast. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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Soldiers of the Japan Self-Defense Force and firefighters search for the victims in the rubble on Monday, March 14, 2011, in Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, three days after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by an earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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Debris covers part of a fishing port on Izushima island in Onagawacho, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's northeast coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Atsushi Taketazu)

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The city center sits devastated by a strong earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, in Japan's Iwate Prefecture, on Monday, March 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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In this photo taken Sunday, March 13, 2011, a member of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force rescues a victim in Ishinomaki, in northern Japan, two days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Makoto Kondo)