Search for missing 2011 tsunami victims

Search for missing 2011 tsunami victims

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Police officers comb through sand on a beach in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 11, 2013, during a search for people still listed as missing after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Japanese police and coast guard officers conducted the first full-scale search of the year in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures the same day to look for 2,485 people who remain unaccounted for after the disaster devastated northeastern Japan.

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