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Minamisanriku all but wiped out

Ten thousand people are still unaccounted for in the small port town of Minamisanriku in northeast Japan, from where the BBC's Alistair Leithead reports.

The BBC's Alistair Leithead has been to the small port town of Minamisanriku in Japan's northeast where 10,000 people are still unaccounted for. He talks to some of those that did survive the massive tsunami.


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