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Jay Alabaster

A staff of a supermarket prepares foods at the facilities with no electricity in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan Friday, April 8, 2011. A big aftershock rocked quake-weary Japan late Thursday, rattling nerves as it knocked out power to the northern part of the country and prompted tsunami warnings that were later canceled. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) (AP)

Strong aftershock slams weary Japan, kills 2

Tomoko A. Hosaka, Jay Alabaster

A member of a British search and rescue team climbs on the roof of a building damaged by the tsunami, whilst searching for trapped people as snow falls in Kamaishi, Japan, Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Two search and rescue teams from the U.S. and a team from the U.K. with combined numbers of around 220 personnel searched the town for survivors Wednesday to help in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) (AP)

Hope and loss in Japan’s search for 8,000 missing

Jay Alabaster, Foster Klug

CORRECTS PREFECTURE (STATE) - Rescue workers carry an elderly man found alive by tsunami survivors buried under rubble along a slope of a hill in Minamisanrikucho in Miyagi Prefecture (state) Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's northeast coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Hiroaki Ohno) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY (AP)

Tide of 1,000 bodies overwhelms quake-hit Japan

Jay Alabaster, Todd Pitman

A stranded elderly woman is carried on the back of a Japanese soldier after being rescued from a residence at Kesennuma, northeastern Japan, on Saturday March 12, 2011, one day after a giant earthquake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING ALLOWED IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Japan death toll likely over 10,000 after earthquake, tsunami

Jay Alabaster, Todd Pitman

CORRECT COUNTRY CODE IN HEADER FIELD - Commuters wait in a long queue at a bus terminal outside Yokohama railway station in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, following a strong earthquake hit eastern Japan on Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama) (AP)

Quake brings modern Tokyo to a standstill

Jay Alabaster

A still from "The Cove."

Japan defends dolphin hunt in Oscar-winning ‘Cove’

Jay Alabaster

Japanese princess bullied at elementary school

Jay Alabaster