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Japan: One week later

Momoko Onodera prays at an evacuation center as she talks about her husband who died in the tsunami on March 18 in Kesennuma, Japan. A potential humanitarian crisis looms as nearly half a million people who have been displaced by the disaster continue to suffer a shortage of food and fuel as freezing weather conditions set in. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) An elderly woman and a relative are reunited at a center for displaced persons in the devastated town of Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture on March 18 one week after a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit the northestern coast of Japan's main island of Honshu. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images) A two-month old baby evacuated along with his parents from the town of Okuma, Fubata district in Fukushima prefecture where the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, is given a bath by a volunteer, Junko Sakamoto in Koriyama city in Fukushima prefecture on March 18. (Go Takayama/AFP/Getty Images) V...

Japan : Hopes fade for finding more survivors

Sixty-six-year-old Yoshikatsu Hiratsuka cries in front of his collapsed house with his mother still missing, possibly buried in the rubble, at Onagawa town in Miyagi prefecture on March 17. The official number of dead and missing after a devastating earthquake and tsunami that flattened Japan's northeast coast is approaching 15,000, police said. (Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP/Getty Images) A sign showing the tsunami evacuation route sits partly covered by debris in the city of Kesennuma, in Miyagi prefecture on March 17. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images) A muddied family photograph sits in an apartment block on March 17 in Kensennuma. Residents were allowed back to their homes today and began the massive cleanup operation. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images) Personal photos sit in the rubble of a house March 17 in Minamisanriku. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) A child's photograph sits on the underside of a mattress March 17 in Kensennuma. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images) ...

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