| 1 | It covered Pacific coastal areas of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures. | |
| 2 | Elsewhere in Miyagi and Iwate prefecture, hundreds more bodies have been dumped by the tsunami, news reports say, and some 450,000 people have been made homeless. | |
| 3 | Around 260 fishing ports were completely destroyed, and over 13 thousand fishing boats lost in Iwate, Ishinomaki and Miyagi prefectures. | |
| 4 | Hiromaru Sasazaki was at his fishing-tackle shop by the beach in Rikuzentakata when the the tsunami warning sounded. | |
| 5 | The death toll remains unclear. Troops are finding hundreds of bodies along the beaches where tsunamis swept out to sea entire communities in neighboring Iwate and Miyagi prefectures. |
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