Week after Japan quake

Week after Japan quake

MIYAKO, Japan - Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso (front L) observes a moment of silence with others at 2:46 p.m. on March 18, 2011, exactly a week after a massive earthquake in northeastern Japan, in the tsunami-hit city of Miyako, Iwate Prefecture. The prefecture alone lost over 2,000 people in the biggest natural disaster in postwar Japan.

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