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Disaster-hit hospital

Disaster-hit hospital

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken June 9, 2011, shows the inside of Shizugawa Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, nearly three months after the area was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

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Disaster-hit hospital

Disaster-hit hospital

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken June 9, 2011, shows Shizugawa Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, nearly three months after the area was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

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Carnations in tsunami-hit areas

Carnations in tsunami-hit areas

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Red carnations are placed in front of the entrance of Shizugawa Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 7, 2011, ahead of Mother's Day the next day. The area was devastated by the March 11 tsunami.

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Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

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-hit hospital to make new start in replaced building

Tsunami-hit hospital to make new start in replaced building

Photo taken on Nov. 25, 2015, shows physician Masaji Saito looking at a clock that used to hang on a wall of the tsunami-hit Shizugawa Public Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, and which is now exhibited at its newly completed replacement, Minamisanriku Hospital. The clock stopped at 3:27 p.m., the time the tsunami struck and engulfed the five-story hospital in the northeastern Japanese town, reaching up to the ceiling of the fourth floor and killing 74 patients and staff members there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit hospital to make new start in replaced building

Tsunami-hit hospital to make new start in replaced building

Guests cut the ribbon at an inauguration ceremony on Nov. 25, 2015, for the newly completed Minamisanriku Hospital, a replacement for the Shizugawa Public Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, that was destroyed in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disasters. Of the 5.6 billion yen construction cost, 2.2 billion yen was financed by donations from Taiwan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit hospital to make new start in replaced building

Tsunami-hit hospital to make new start in replaced building

The interior of the newly completed Minamisanriku Hospital, a replacement for the Shizugawa Public Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, that was destroyed in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disasters, is shown to the press on Nov. 25, 2015. Of the 5.6 billion yen construction cost, 2.2 billion yen was financed by donations from Taiwan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disaster-hit hospital

Disaster-hit hospital

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken June 9, 2011, shows Shizugawa Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, nearly three months after the area was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Disaster-hit hospital

Disaster-hit hospital

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken June 9, 2011, shows the inside of Shizugawa Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, nearly three months after the area was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Carnations in tsunami-hit areas

Carnations in tsunami-hit areas

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Red carnations are placed in front of the entrance of Shizugawa Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 7, 2011, ahead of Mother's Day the next day. The area was devastated by the March 11 tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Minamisanriku just before tsunami

Minamisanriku just before tsunami

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - (1st of 7-part series of photos) Handout photo shows people on the rooftop of a three-story town office building (front) and Shizugawa Hospital (back) in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, at around 3:23 p.m. on March 11, 2011, immediately before a massive tsunami struck the area. (Photo may be used only for newspapers, TV broadcasting. Internet use is prohibited)(Photo courtesy of Shinichi Sato)(Kyodo)

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Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

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. (Kyodo)

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Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

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. (Kyodo)

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