Police face challenges in identifying corpses from 2011 quake, tsunami

Mitsuhisa Okada, a lieutenant in the Miyagi prefectural police force's investigative squad seeking to find and identify those missing from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, checks and compares photos of people reported missing with portrait sketches for any matching persons at the police headquarters in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on March 4, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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