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This combination of pictures shows a catamaran sightseeing boat washed by the tsunami onto a two-storey tourist home in Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture on April 16, 2011 (top) and the same area on January 16, 2012 (bottom). (AFP photo/ Yasuyoshi Chiba) (top) (AFP photo / Toru Yamanaka) (bottom)
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This combo shows an image (top) taken by a Miyako City official on March 11, 2011 of the tsunami breeching an embankment and flowing into the city of Miyako in Iwate prefecture and the same area (bottom image) on January 16, 2012 nearly one year after the March 11 tsunami devastated the area. (AFP photo/ Jiji Press) (top image) (AFP Photo/Toru Yamanaka)(bottom)
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This combination of pictures shows the view of a tsunami hit street in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on March 14, 2011 (top) and the same scene as it appears on January 15, 2012 (bottom). (AFP photo/Toshifumi Kitamura) (top) (AFP photo / Toru Yamanaka) (bottom)
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This combination of pictures shows the view of a tsunami hit street in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on March 14, 2011 (top) and the same scene as it appears on January 15, 2012 (bottom). (AFP photo/Toshifumi Kitamura) (top) (AFP photo / Toru Yamanaka) (bottom)
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This combination of pictures shows the view of a tsunami hit area in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on March 14, 2011 (top) and the same scene as it appears on January 15, 2012 (bottom). (AFP photo/Toshifumi Kitamura) (top) (AFP photo / Toru Yamanaka) (bottom)
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This combination of pictures shows a 10-metre high pine tree in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture on March 29, 2011 (top) and the same scene as it appears on January 15, 2012 (bottom). It is the only tree to have survived the tsunami among some 70,000 trees located by the seashore to protect from salt, sand and wind damage. (AFP photo/Toshifumi Kitamura) (top) (AFP photo / Toru Yamanaka) (bottom)
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This combination of pictures shows a tsunami hit area of Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture on March 22, 2011 (top) and the same area on January 15, 2012 (bottom). (AFP photo/Nicolas Asfouri)(top) (AFP photo / Toru Yamanaka)(bottom)
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This combination of pictures shows a fishing boat lying amongst the tsunami rubble in Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture on March 31, 2011 (top) and the same area on January 16, 2012 (bottom). (AFP photo/Toshifumi Kitamura) (top) (AFP photo / Toru Yamanaka) (bottom)
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This combo shows a photo of Yuko Sugimoto wrapped with a blanket standing in front of debris looking for her son in the tsunami-hit town of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture on March 13, 2011 (top) and the same housewife standing with her five-year-old son Raito at the same place on January 27, 2012 (bottom) . (AFP photo/ Yomiuri SHhimbnun) (top) (AFP photo / Toru Yamanaka) (bottom)
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This combination of pictures shows local residents walking in a flooded street in a tsunami hit area of Tagajo, Miyagi prefecture on March 13, 2011 (top) and the same area on January 12, 2012 (bottom). (AFP photo/ Kazuhiro Nogi) (top) (AFP photo/Toru Yamanaka)(bottom)
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This combination of pictures shows people evacuating with small boats down a road flooded by the tsunami in the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture on March 12, 2011 (top) and the same area on January 13, 2012 (bottom). (AFP photo/Jiji press)(top) (AFP photo/Toru Yamanaka)(bottom)
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This combination of pictures shows residents crossing a bridge covered with debris in a tsunami hit area of the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture on March 15, 2011 (top) and the same area on January 13, 2012 (bottom). (AFP photo/Kim Jae-Hwan) (top) (AFP photo/Toru Yamanaka)(bottom)
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This combination of pictures shows a fishing boat washed up by the March 11, 2011 tsunami onto on a road in the city of Kesennuma in Miyagi prefecture on March 16, 2011 (top) and the same area on January 14, 2012 (bottom). (AFP photo/Kim Jae-Hwan) (top) (AFP photo/Toru Yamanaka)(bottom)
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This combination of pictures shows a survivor walking past rubble and collapsed buildings in Kesennuma in Miyagi prefecture on March 18, 2011 (top) following the March 11, 2011 tsunami and the same area on January 14, 2012 (bottom). (AFP photo/Philipe Lopez) (top) (AFP photo/Toru Yamanaka)(bottom)
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This combination of pictures shows a private plane, cars and debris outside Sendai Airport in Natori, Miyagi prefecture on March 13, 2011 (top) two days after a tsunami hit the region on March 11, 2011 and the same area on January 12, 2012 (bottom). (AFP photo/ Mike Clarke) (top) (AFP photo/Toru Yamanaka)(bottom)
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