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1st auction at temporary fish market in Miyagi

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The first auction of the year is held on Jan. 4, 2015, at a temporary fish market in the town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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1st auction at temporary fish market in Miyagi

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The first auction of the year is held on Jan. 4, 2015, at a temporary fish market in the town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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1st auction at temporary fish market in Miyagi

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The first auction of the year is held on Jan. 4, 2015, at a temporary fish market in the town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Panel proposes conservation of 4 facilities wrecked by 2011 disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The steel frame of the Minamisanriku town government's office building for antidisaster measures remains standing in the town in Miyagi Prefecture on Dec. 18, 2014. An advisory panel to the prefectural government decided to recommend the conservation of four facilities, including the frame, wrecked by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a reminder of the disaster.

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Panel proposes conservation of 4 facilities wrecked by 2011 disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The steel frame of the Minamisanriku town government's office building for antidisaster measures remains standing in the town in Miyagi Prefecture on Dec. 18, 2014. An advisory panel to the prefectural government decided to recommend the conservation of four facilities, including the frame, wrecked by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a reminder of the disaster.

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Panel proposes conservation of 4 facilities wrecked by 2011 disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The steel frame of the Minamisanriku town government's office building for antidisaster measures remains standing in the town in Miyagi Prefecture on Dec. 18, 2014. An advisory panel to the prefectural government decided to recommend the conservation of four facilities, including the frame, wrecked by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a reminder of the disaster.

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Disaster-hit building in Minamisanriku, Japan

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The skeletal structure of what used to be a local government building in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, remains deserted on Feb. 14, 2014. Forty-three people, mostly town officials, died at the building in the March 2011 tsunami. The structure was set to be demolished initially but its preservation as a reminder of the disaster is being discussed by experts at the request of the prefectural governor.

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Tsunami-hit Minamisanriku disaster center in snow

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The Minamisanriku disaster prevention center, which had been reduced to a skeletal structure by the March 2011 tsunami, stands in the snow on Feb. 11, 2014, in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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New Year's Day in disaster area

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Members of a family head to a shrine on the New Year's Day on Jan. 1, 2013, in an area in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, hit by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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1 and half years after quake

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Some houses destroyed by a tsunami are still left in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 11, 2012, one and a half years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

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Lunar eclipse

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A total lunar eclipse is observed in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, at 11:38 p.m. on Dec. 10, 2011. On the left is the framework of a disaster management building of the Minamisanriku town government wrecked by the March tsunami.

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Public library reopens in disaster-hit Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - People visit a makeshift public library in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on the opening day on Oct. 5, 2011. The town-run library lost almost all of its 30,000 books due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami but reopened with 3,000 of some 10,000 donated books.

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Half year after tsunami

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The moon lights up the ruins of a town government building in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 9, 2011, nearly a half year after the March 11 quake and tsunami. About 30 town officials died when the tsunami engulfed the building where they were ordered to gather to collect information and issue evacuation instructions to town residents.

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Mobile convenience store in disaster-hit area

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A man shops at a mobile convenience store in the disaster-hit city of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture on May 20, 2011. The truck makes several stops a day to help residents in the city that was devastated by the March 11 quake-triggered tsunami.

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Sunset at disaster-hit Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A boy walks along a road at sunset on May 13, 2011, in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Tsunami damage in Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A couple records the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 20, 2011.

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U.S. researcher probes seabed with robot

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A U.S. researcher (C) is seen at a fishing port in the quake-hit town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 20, 2011. Researchers were probing the seabed of the port by operating a robot to assess whether fishing boats could dock at the port.

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Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - An elderly patient receives an examination at a makeshift facility of Shizugawa public hospital, a central hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11, 2011, tsunami, on April 18. The hospital, which lost 70 of its around 300 inpatients and workers in the disaster, fully reopened at prefab facilities the same day. The hospital is using the prefab units and equipment donated by an Israeli medical aid team that finished its operations in Minamisanriku on April 10.

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Tsunami aftermath in Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A man walks near a stranded ship in the tsunami-hit town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 15, 2011.

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Tsunami aftermath

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A mountain of trash is burned in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 2, 2011. The area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Israeli medical team in quake-hit Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A doctor belonging to an Israeli emergency medical team examines a survivor of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster at a temporary clinic in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 29, 2011.

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Tsunami warning signboard in Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A signboard warning of tsunami following an earthquake lies among debris in the town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 21, 2011. The signboard reads, ''An earthquake. Tsunami is coming. Evacuate immediately!'' The area was struck by a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami on March 11.

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Japan's mega quake

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A man walks past a commercial building covered with a fishing net in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 19, 2011, following the March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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Quake aftermath in Japan

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A commemorative signboard indicating the height of a tsunami, 2.8 meters, which struck the area following the earthquake in Chile in 1960, is left in the rubble in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 17, 2011. The area was hit again by tsunami, estimated at over 10 meters high, following the historic earthquake that hit northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011.

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Health checkups at quake shelter

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A doctor examines the condition of an evacuee at a sickbay of a shelter in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 16, 2011. A massive earthquake and tsunami struck the area on March 11.