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'Lonely' boy, 9, reunited with cousin BY KUNIAKI NISHIO STAFF WRITER Toshihito Aisawa, 9, beams after being reunited with his cousin Yuto Shima, right, after six days. (Kuniaki Nishio) ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--His image and handmade sign seeking information on his family and relatives drew sympathy from not only those in evacuation centers, but from concerned people across the nation and beyond. On Thursday, 9-year-old Toshihito Aisawa came one step closer to fulfilling his goal of finding family members. Toshihito's father Kazuyuki, mother Noriko, grandmother Kyoko and two cousins, Yuna and Yuto Shima, were carried away by the calamitous tsunami that...

Boy continues lonely search for family members BY KUNIAKI NISHIO STAFF WRITER 2011/03/17 "I will come again tomorrow," reads one of the messages Toshihito Aisawa, 9, wrote to his family and cousins who have been missing since the tsunami hit Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. (Kuniaki Nishio) Toshihito Aisawa holds up signs with the names of his family and cousins at an evacuation center in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Tuesday. (Kuniaki Nishio) ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Quake evacuees give sympathetic looks to a boy who has become a familiar face at evacuation centers in this city ravaged by last Friday's quake and tsunami. But...