N.Z. quake

TOKYO, Japan - Kento Okuda (C on the stretcher), a 19-year-old Toyama language school student, returns to Japan aboard an Air New Zealand plane that arrived at Narita airport on Feb. 28, 2011, from New Zealand where he had his right leg amputated in being freed from the debris of a building flattened by a powerful earthquake Feb. 22.

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