Remember that dog they rescued in the middle of the ocean after spending 3 weeks floating on a roof..? They brought him into shore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLMYp6RL08A
(English subtitled)
I spent most of 2007 working at the HTTR site in Oarai. The parts of Oarai near the coastline were flooded by a 4-m tsunami following the quake. I was saddened to see a video of some of the same streets I used to walk and drive on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM6usF56Wpk
It is ironic that Oarai means “big wash.” Fortunately, all of my Japanese friends that I worked with are OK.