3-day intensive search begins

3-day intensive search begins

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A boat of the Maritime Self-Defense Force and a helicopter take part in an intensive search mission to find missing people in the Nagatsuraura cove in Ishinomaki, Iwate Prefecture, on April 1, 2011. The Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military launched the three-day operation in areas devastated by the March 11 quake and tsunami in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, three weeks after the disaster wiped out coastal cities and towns in northeast Japan.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001158151
  • Registered date
  • 2011/4/01 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2011 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1889 × 1234 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 403.12(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Search after U.S. military Osprey crash

    Search after U.S. military Osprey crash

    A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel conducts a search on Dec. 5, 2023, in waters around the Nov. 29 crash site of a U.S. military CV-22 Osprey aircraft off the island of Yakushima in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima. The remains of five people and the main part of the Osprey were discovered underwater the previous day and recovery efforts continue.
      Search after U.S. military Osprey crash

      Search after U.S. military Osprey crash

      A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel conducts a search on Dec. 5, 2023, in waters around the Nov. 29 crash site of a U.S. military CV-22 Osprey aircraft off the island of Yakushima in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima. The remains of five people and the main part of the Osprey were discovered underwater the previous day and recovery efforts continue.
        Search for missing Japan SDF chopper

        Search for missing Japan SDF chopper

        Japan Self-Defense Forces members watch a Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel searching for a missing Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter in waters off Miyako Island of Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on April 7, 2023. The UH-60JA multipurpose chopper with 10 personnel aboard disappeared from radar the previous day, shortly after taking off from the island to surveil nearby land features.
          Search for missing Japan SDF chopper

          Search for missing Japan SDF chopper

          Japan Self-Defense Forces personnel look at the waters from Okinawa Prefecture's Miyako Island on April 7, 2023, after a Ground Self-Defense Force UH-60JA helicopter with 10 members aboard went missing in nearby waters the previous day.
            SDF builds pontoon bridge in quake-tsunami drill

            SDF builds pontoon bridge in quake-tsunami drill

            ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces inspect a pontoon bridge they built across the Kitakami River in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, during a large-scale earthquake-tsunami disaster drill, named Michinoku Alert 2014, on Nov. 7, 2014.
              SDF builds pontoon bridge in quake-tsunami drill

              SDF builds pontoon bridge in quake-tsunami drill

              SENDAI, Japan - Members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces build a pontoon bridge across the Kitakami River in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, during a large-scale earthquake-tsunami disaster drill, named Michinoku Alert 2014, on Nov. 7, 2014.
                Osprey arrives to participate in disaster drill

                Osprey arrives to participate in disaster drill

                SENDAI, Japan - A U.S. MV-22 Osprey tilt-motor aircraft arrives at the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's Kasuminome Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 7, 2014, to participate in a local earthquake-tsunami disaster drill.
                  U.S. military Ospreys take part in disaster drill

                  U.S. military Ospreys take part in disaster drill

                  KUSHIMOTO, Japan - An MV-22 Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Marine Corps takes off from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Ise located off Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, during a tsunami disaster drill on Oct. 19, 2014. Two Ospreys from the Marines' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa took part in the disaster drill simulating a massive earthquake and tsunami originating in the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan.
                    U.S. military Ospreys take part in disaster drill

                    U.S. military Ospreys take part in disaster drill

                    OSAKA, Japan - An MV-22 Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Marine Corps prepares to land on the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Ise off Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, during a tsunami disaster drill on Oct. 19, 2014. Two Ospreys from the Marines' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa took part in the disaster drill simulating a massive earthquake and tsunami originating in the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan.
                      U.S. military Ospreys take part in disaster drill

                      U.S. military Ospreys take part in disaster drill

                      KUSHIMOTO, Japan - An individual playing the part of an injured person during a tsunami disaster drill on Oct. 19, 2014, is removed from an MV-22 Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Marine Corps on the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Ise located off Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture. Two Ospreys from the Marines' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa took part in the disaster drill simulating a massive earthquake and tsunami originating in the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan.