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Photo Gallery: Japan In Crisis - March 13, 2011

  • Members of the Japanese military walk through tsunami wreckage in Sendai, Japan on Sunday.
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    Members of the Japanese military walk through tsunami wreckage in Sendai, Japan on Sunday.
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  • Residents are being evacuated and checked for radiation from areas surrounding the damaged Fukushima nuclear facilities, in Japan's Fukushima prefecture.
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    Residents are being evacuated and checked for radiation from areas surrounding the damaged Fukushima nuclear facilities, in Japan's Fukushima prefecture.
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  • Members of the Japanese military walk through devastation to search for missing people at Otsuchi town in Iwate prefecture on Sunday.
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    Members of the Japanese military walk through devastation to search for missing people at Otsuchi town in Iwate prefecture on Sunday.
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  • Smoke rises from burning debris washed away by tsunami waters in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, on Sunday, two days after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake.
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    Smoke rises from burning debris washed away by tsunami waters in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, on Sunday, two days after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake.
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  • A child is checked for radiation exposure. More than 200,000 people in the area surrounding the reactors have been evacuated.
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    A child is checked for radiation exposure. More than 200,000 people in the area surrounding the reactors have been evacuated.
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  • Fire department officials wait for arriving residents evacuated from areas surrounding the nuclear facilities 170 miles north of Tokyo .
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    Fire department officials wait for arriving residents evacuated from areas surrounding the nuclear facilities 170 miles north of Tokyo .
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  • A soldier pulls evacuated people in a rubber boat at Ishinomaki city in Miyagi prefecture.
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    A soldier pulls evacuated people in a rubber boat at Ishinomaki city in Miyagi prefecture.
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  • Smoke billows from fires raging at the port in Tagajo, Miyagi prefecture.
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    Smoke billows from fires raging at the port in Tagajo, Miyagi prefecture.
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  • Local residents cycle past damaged cars littering a street in Tagajo, Miyagi prefecture, as fire smoke rises in the distance.
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    Local residents cycle past damaged cars littering a street in Tagajo, Miyagi prefecture, as fire smoke rises in the distance.
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  • Japanese rescuers carry a body in Sendai.
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    Japanese rescuers carry a body in Sendai.
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  • Members of the Chinese rescue team prepare to depart to aid Japan at the airport in Beijing.
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    Members of the Chinese rescue team prepare to depart to aid Japan at the airport in Beijing.
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  • A car, washed into the area by the tsunami, sits on top of a small building in a destroyed neighborhood in Sendai, Japan.
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    A car, washed into the area by the tsunami, sits on top of a small building in a destroyed neighborhood in Sendai, Japan.
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  • Tar from a burning oil refinery lies on a river bed near Sendai, northern Japan.
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    Tar from a burning oil refinery lies on a river bed near Sendai, northern Japan.
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  • A Japanese rescuer looks at land devastated by the tsunami in Sendai.
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    A Japanese rescuer looks at land devastated by the tsunami in Sendai.
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Japan faces mounting fears as a second blast occurs at a nuclear plant and hundreds of thousands of citizens are evacuated.

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