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This sushi restaurant was damaged in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, about 70 miles from the epicenter.

A woman walks over piles of debris as she returns to her home in the city of Natori in Miyagi prefecture on Sunday, March 13.

Smoke billows from fires raging at the port in Tagajo on Sunday. Japan battled a feared meltdown of two reactors at a quake-hit nuclear plant.

A house in Minamisanrikucho stands ruined on Sunday in the wake of the tsunami.

Cars washed inland by the tsunami sit in debris-covered water outside Sendai.

A canal is blocked by cars that were strewn there after a massive earthquake and tsunami hit Japan.

The tsunami left vehicles on top of three-story buildings in Onagawa.

A yacht washed ashore by a huge tsunami sits on top of a building in Otsuchi, Japan, on Monday, March 14.

Vehicles are left stranded in a damaged parking lot in Yabuki in Fukushima prefecture.

A tsunami wave carries out fishing boats and vehicles at Onahama port in Iwaki in northern Japan.

A pedestrian road is in shambles in Urayasu in Chiba prefecture.

A collapsed wall crushes vehicles at a parking lot in Mito.

Tsunami waves leave cars and planes tossed about likes toys at Sendai Airport in northeastern Japan.

Houses swept out to sea burn in the aftermath of the quake.

A factory building has collapsed in Sukagawa.

Whirlpools appear in Iwaki on Japan's east coast following the quake and a tsunami.

A massive tsunami slams the coastal areas of Iwanuma in Miyagi prefecture.

An aerial view shows the widespread devastation Saturday in Kesennuma after flooding from the monster tsunami.

People survey the aftermath of a tsunami Saturday in Minamisoma.

Fishing boats lie piled atop debris in Kesennuma on Saturday. Hundreds were killed, and the number of dead is expected to rise.