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Japan: Survivor pulled from rubble after eight days

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110319/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_earthquake_rescue

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Military search teams pulled a young man from a crushed house Saturday, eight days after an earthquake and tsunami wrecked northeast Japan.

The young man, found in the rubble in Kesennuma city, was too weak to talk and was immediately transferred to a nearby hospital, said a military official. The official, who declined to give his name because he was not authorized to speak to the media, had no other details.

Kyodo, the Japanese news agency, said the man was in his 20s.

The rescue is the latest and one of the few after the March 11 disaster, as the power of the tsunami, triggered by the magnitude-9 earthquake, likely pulled many people out to sea.

The National Police Agency raised the death toll Saturday, reporting that 7,197 people had died — exceeding the deaths from the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Another 10,905 were reported missing, the police agency said.
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    • http://news.yahoo.com/s/theweek/20110317/cm_theweek/213234_20110317123600

      Five more survival stories.

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      "1. The "tiniest miracle": A 4-month-old survivor
      They're calling her the "tiniest miracle." Three days after the quake, rescuers in the town of Ishinomaki heard what sounded like a baby's cry emanating from a pile of debris. At first, they dismissed it — surely no child could have survived the monster tidal wave that ripped through the town. But the wailing continued, and rescuers soon discovered its source: A 4-month-old baby girl, swaddled in a pink woolen bear suit. Her parents, both of whom survived the disaster, were at a loss to explain how the child avoided being drowned, or crushed by debris.

      2. The American survivor who walked for 20 hours to find his girlfriend
      Zack Branham, a 24-year-old American teacher, survived last week's disaster in the northern town of Kuji, but soon discovered the nearby town where his girlfriend lived had taken a direct hit from the tsunami. The Tennessee native walked four miles across near-impassable, quake-ravaged terrain — a feat that took him 20 hours — to find his girlfriend. The pair were reunited, and plan to stay in Japan to help with the recovery.

      3. The man rescued nine miles out to sea
      The devastating tsunami that hit the northeast coast of Japan sucked entire towns out to sea, leaving thousands unaccounted for. But 60-year-old Hiromitsu Shinkawa was fortunate enough to survive being pulled out to the ocean depths, and clung to the shattered roof of his house for two days. Rescuers on a naval destroyer spotted him floating amid the debris some nine miles away from the shoreline."

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