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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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France rescues Japanese ambassador in Ivory Coast (AP)
AP – French forces wearing night vision goggles rappelled from a helicopter to rescue the Japanese ambassador and seven others, France’s foreign minister said Thursday, as Ivory Coast’s strongman leader remained in an underground bunker amid the fighting.
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Japanese PM on 1st visit to tsunami-hit villages (AP)
AP – Japan’s prime minister promised to support the hundreds of thousands of people who lost everything in a massive tsunami, as he laid eyes Saturday for the first time on the destruction of the country’s northeastern coast.
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Japanese, US military search for tsunami victims (AP)
AP – SENDAI, Japan — Japanese and U.S. military ships and helicopters trolled Japan’s tsunami-ravaged coastline looking for bodies Friday, part of an all-out search that could be the last chance to find those swept out to sea nearly three weeks ago.
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No threat from Japanese radiation spread across US (AP)
AP – Traces of radioactive material from the endangered Japanese nuclear plant are being detected from coast to coast in the United States and in Iceland, but amounts continue to be far below levels that would cause health problems.
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Pool of radioactive water found OUTSIDE Japanese nuclear plant
Workers trying to prevent a total meltdown at a Japanese nuclear power plant suffered another setback Monday when they found a pool of highly radioactive water leaking from the crippled facility.
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Breach possible at troubled Japanese nuclear plant (AP)
AP – A possible breach at Japan’s troubled nuclear plant has escalated the crisis anew, two full weeks after an earthquake and tsunami first compromised the facility. The development suggested radioactive contamination may be worse than first thought, with tainted groundwater the most likely consequence.
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