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An elderly man is carried by a Self-Defense Force member in the tsunami-torn Natori city, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, on Saturday morning, March 12, one day after strong earthquakes hit the area.
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People wait for rescue on the rooftop of a ruined building tangled with tsunami-drifted debris in Rikuzentakada, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Saturday morning, March 12, after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake slammed into its eastern coast Friday.
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A man walks outside a two-story house, with its first floor structure was destroyed by tsunami, in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan on Saturday morning, March 12, after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake slammed into its eastern coast Friday.
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A woman who was left inside a building is rescued Saturday, March 12, after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake slammed into its eastern coast Friday.
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A local resident walks through debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate, northern Japan on Saturday morning, March 12 after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake slammed into its eastern coast Friday.
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A man looks out over an area swept by a tsunami following an earthquake in Sendai City, northeastern Japan on March 12. Japan confronted devastation along its northeastern coast on Saturday, with fires raging and parts of some cities under water after a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed thousands.
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Everyone affected are in my thoughts and prayers! Stay strong my friends! God Bless
God bless all that been affected in this my thoughts and prayers are with you, have Faith in God he will bring you thru this............
This is a horrible tragedy but the picture you say is a local resident walking through debris looks to be a man looting purses...Sad world we live in today.
Really Barbara?! Are you that much of a synic to pull that from a picture that shows absolutely nothing to support that?!?! As a matter of fact if you open you eyes & look at the longer hair it looks like a woman holding her own purse climbing over debris. You are the sign of the sad world we live in with your thought process....
Peace and love to you Camaron ♥
Barbara, you are the one who needs peace and love, desperately!
Japan is a great country as what Japanese people has proved with their brilliant tech-manufacture
contributions. The earthquake is an unexpected trategy. While, we believe, Japanese people could overcome those tremendous pain of life-loss, property-loss, home-loss, ......God with ardency toward life.
jesus hates japan.population control?
You are pathetic Stonefly!! Don't you know Jesus loves all? Yes, including people like you. May his grace and mercy be upon the people of Japan.
So sorry you have such a bad feeling for the Japanese people, Stonefly, but God loves you just the same. He sends the rain and the sunshine on the just and the unjust. If you look, you will find Him and He will take away your prejudices.
lets pray for the japanese people. they deserve our sympathy...
anyone that make statements like stonefly are truely the ones who need gods help...dont be surppised if you dont meet your altimate demise.....god will see to it that the people of japan get what ever help they will need...they will get thru this...I feel even god may turn his back on people like you...they call it poetic justice
What does god have to do with any of this? This world isnt controlled by "God", Im pretty sure if "he" was the way everyone thinks he is then a world devastation wouldnt happen to anyone. This is what we call nature everyone, sad tragedies like this happen all the time. Best of luck to Japan, i hope eveything pulls through with the help of people and countries not GOD.
In August 1945 we dropped an a-bomb on Hiroshima that killed 166,000 and injured about 100,000 people.
A few days later the a-bomb we dropped on Nagasaki killed 74,000 and injured about 75,000 people.
I would say the Japanese are very resilient people, wouldn't you?
Let us every one pray for the Japanese.
We have various times seen how furious Mother Nature can become. Japan has faced disaster many times, they had the best systems placed for such disaster but still it did not work. This is a teachings for the other nations that how much vigilant we should be.
Japanese are very strong by heart and have high morale they will built their country within a year. They will find out way from this also. Just like a phoenix.
Although I have already seen pictures of the disaster is Japan, these are some of the most powerful images I have seen thus far. I can hardly fathom a 9.0 magnitude earthquake—Japan's worst disaster. With thousands dead and missing, the situation is nothing less than an extreme tragedy. The eyes of the world that were recently fixed on New Zealand have now turned to Japan.
The first image of the officer carrying the elderly man on his back is one of the most touching images I've ever seen. The smoke in the background creates some overexposure, but it adds to the artistic effect and helps to create a brilliant composition.
I can hardly believe that the next photo is even real. The porch that the four people are standing on, waiting to be rescued, is completely in tact, but the rest of the building is covered in debris. The aerial view is a good contrast to the previous photo and shows the reality of the disaster.
The next two photos both used individuals very strategically. Each one has a single individual as the subject, and they are surrounded by rubble. Despite the mess, though, they somehow both look very hopeful.
The following photo creates an interesting mood by shooting from behind the subject. As the person is climbing over the debris, I can almost sense the determination that this person has. It is as if he or she is refusing to give up and give in.
The last photo is my favorite. The colors in the sunset are brilliant, and it reflects off of the water in the streets and falls on the rubble that is everyone. The guard rail does a great job of acting as a leading line, and drawing the viewer's eye to the subject on the left. As he looks out to the sunset, it's as if he's found beauty is the absolute chaos. I pray that it gave him hope.