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Osaka, Japan (AFP) March 19, 2011 Rescuers pulled a man from the rubble of a destroyed building in northeast Japan on Saturday, eight days after a massive earthquake and tsunami, a Self Defence Forces spokesman said. Troops "recovered a young man from a half-destroyed house in Kesennuma city (Miyagi prefecture). He has no visible injuries but he was in such shock that he was unable to speak," said spokesman Hiroyuki Nakayama. He was later transported to a nearby hospital, Nakayama added. The man was identified as Katsuharu Moriya, aged in his 20s, Kyodo News agency reported, quoting another SDF official. A 9.0-magnitude earthquake on March 11 triggered a giant tsunami that flattened Japan's northeast coast and killed 7,197, according to the latest police death toll, with almost 11,000 officially listed as missing.
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US not prepared for 'mega-disaster': officialWashington (AFP) March 17, 2011 The United States is not as prepared as it should be for a disaster on the scale of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, a former top emergency response official said Thursday. "If you ask me if we as a nation are better prepared than we were 40 years ago, five years ago, the answer is yes. "But if you ask me are we as prepared as we can or should be, the answer to that is ... read more |
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