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Flotsam from Japanese tsunami reaches West Coast (AP)

AP – Some debris from the March tsunami in Japan has reached the West Coast.

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Japanese mobsters suspected of stealing loans intended for tsunami victims

Japanese mafiosos may have orchestrated a heartless swindle to steal money intended for victims of last spring’s tsunami, according to local reports.

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Searchers looking for 19-year-old Japanese student swept over Niagara Falls find man’s body instead

Authorities searching for the remains of a Japanese woman who fell into the water at Niagara Falls were surprised to find the body of a man instead.

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Farmers protest against Japanese nuke plant owner (AP)

Farmers, mostly from Fukushima Prefecture where the tsunami crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi plant is located, gather in front of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) headquarters in Tokyo Tuesday, April 26, 2011. More than 200 farmers affected by radiation spewing from the nuclear plant staged a demonstration to demand that TEPCO pays them adequate compensation for loss of income caused by having to leave their farms, or for having produced withdrawn from the market due to contamination fears. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP – More than 200 farmers brought two cows to Tokyo where they shouted and punched the air Tuesday in a protest to demand compensation for products contaminated by radiation spewing from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant.


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Robot in Japanese reactors detects high radiation (AP)

Tokyo Electric Power Co., (TEPCO) Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata bows at the end of a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Sunday, April 17, 2011. TEPCO, the operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking radiation in northern Japan announced a plan Sunday that would bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow some evacuated residents to return to their homes. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)AP – Readings Monday from a robot that entered two crippled buildings at Japan’s tsunami-flooded nuclear plant for the first time in more than a month displayed a harsh environment still too radioactive for workers to enter.


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Japanese government under fire over disaster plan (AP)

Tokyo Electric Power Co., (TEPCO) Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata bows at the end of a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Sunday, April 17, 2011. TEPCO, the operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking radiation in northern Japan announced a plan Sunday that would bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow some evacuated residents to return to their homes. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)AP – A blueprint for ending radiation leaks and stabilizing reactors at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant drew a lackluster response Monday, as polls showed diminishing public support for the government’s handling of the country’s recent disasters.


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TRAGIC: Stranded for weeks alone, man, 75, found in Japanese ghost town

Kunio Shiga must have felt like the last man on earth. The feeble 75-year-old was discovered stranded alone in his small farmhouse on Friday, surrounded by fallen trees, dead pigs and garbage strewn by the deadly March 11 tsunami in Japan.

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