Meredith Birkett wrote last month about the family photographs left in the rubble of houses after Japan's earthquake and tsunami. Now, an effort has begun to reunite some of those lost photos with their owners.

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Volunteers remove mud and sort family photographs recovered by defense force soldiers from tsunami devastated areas, at a shelter in Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture, Japan on April 10.
Volunteers work to return lost photos to tsunami survivors
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