Japanese American Kit Miyamoto, a structual engineer from the United States, is in Japan to help assess the damage
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A rescue worker searches through debris
Japanese soldiers pray for victims found in debris
Coffins fill a hall. The official number of dead and missing after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that flattened Japan's northeast coast a week ago has topped 16,000
A Japanese Rescue worker holds an intravenous drip bag as an elderly survivor is tansported to a hospital
Aiko Musashi and her husband, Katsuya, remove belongings from their destroyed home. Residents have started returning to their homes to began the massive cleanup operation caused by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake
This picture was taken by a Miyako City official on March 11 and shows a tsunami breaching an embankment and flowing into the city of Miyako
Momoko Onodera, at an evacuation center Kesennuma, prays as she talks about her husband who died in the tsunami
A window provides a view of a large ship,Dai 18 Kyotoku Maru, sitting amid debris in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture