It's VERY SAD . . . Much Of Japan Is DESTROYED!!

And the aftershocks go on: 275 new tremors hit quake-torn Japan as fears grow for missing 10,000 in flattened port town

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• 42 survivors have been pulled out of the rubble
• Official death toll hits 1,597, but many hundreds believed to be buried under rubble or washed away by waves
• Toll will soar after around 2,000 bodies were found on the shores of Miyagi prefecture
• Second explosion at nuclear power plant
• Number of people contaminated with radiation could reach 160
• Region hit by hundreds of aftershocks, some up to 6.8-magnitude
• Rescue operation begins but some areas still cut off by road damage and flood waters
• 70,000 people evacuated to shelters in Sendai

A motorcyclist passes by an overturned fishing boat in Hachinohe, Aomori, northern Japan

Villagers carry relief goods in Minami Sanriku, the worst-hit area where almost 10,000 people have gone missin
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Japanese home guard help survivors to safety in the flooded town of Minami Sanriku

Alive: A woman is pulled from the rubble in the devastated city of Natori, Miyagi prefecture today

Incredibly patient: People queue for water in Sendai two days after the earthquake and tsunami struck