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In this March 16, 2011 file photo, Reiko Miura, 68, cries as she looks for her nephew at the tsunami-hit area in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. “The first two days after the quake struck, I was on a helicopter taking aerial shots. I saw huge columns of black smoke from a flattened town. A large cargo ship was on top of a building. There was no sign of life at all. I did not want to think about thousands of people who were there when the colossal tsunami hit. I just tried to focus on what I needed to do. But an encounter I had later with an old lady who was looking for her nephew sticks in my mind. It was a cold day and the sky was covered with dark clouds. The tsunami wiped out much of her city of Otsuchi. As she carefully walked in the mud in her rubber boots, she struggled to recognize her nephew's neighborhood because there were nothing but piles of wreckage and mud”. – Koji Ueda, AP video journalist. (Photo by Itsuo Inouye/AP Photo)
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