A Japan's Self-Defence Force's member is searching for the missing in the tsunami-devastated city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, about 400km north of Tokyo, 30 March, 2011. The total number of missing and dead people has climbed to over 28,000. EPA/KIMIMASA MAYAMA
Japan's Self-Defence Force's members are searching for the missing near Kadowaki elementary school burnt out by fires caused by tsunamis in tsunami devastated city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, about 400km north of Tokyo, 30 March, 2011. The total number of missing and dead people has climbed to over 28,000. EPA/KIMIMASA MAYAMA
Japan's Self-Defence Force's members stands amid debtis as they are searching for the missing near Kadowaki elementary school burnt out by fires caused by tsunamis in tsunami devastated city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, about 400km north of Tokyo, 30 March, 2011. The total number of missing and dead people has climbed to over 28,000. EPA/KIMIMASA MAYAMA
Japan's Self-Defence Force's members are searching for the missing around Kadowaki elementary school burnt out by fires caused by tsunamis in tsunami-devastated city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, about 400km north of Tokyo, 30 March, 2011. The total number of missing and dead people has climbed to over 28,000. EPA/KIMIMASA MAYAMA
Japan's Self-Defence Force's members are searching for the missing in tsunami devastated city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, about 400km north of Tokyo, 30 March, 2011. The total number of missing and dead people has climbed to over 28,000. EPA/KIMIMASA MAYAMA
Sitting with company's executives, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (C) speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, 30 March 2011. EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON
Buddhist monk Shinsho Higuchi of Saikoji temple checks damage of graves at his temple's cemetery in tsunami-devastated city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, about 400km north of Tokyo, 30 March, 2011. The total number of missing and dead people has climbed to over 28,000. EPA/KIMIMASA MAYAMA
A Japan's Self-Defence Force's member checks a car for the missing in tsunami-devastated city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, about 400km north of Tokyo, 30 March, 2011. The total number of missing and dead people has climbed to over 28,000. EPA/KIMIMASA MAYAMA
Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata attends to a news conference at the company headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, 30 March 2011. Katsumata said it will more than a few weeks to fix the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Earlier in the day, TEPCO announced that its president, Masataka Shimizu, was hospitalized on 29 March for hypertension. Katsumata is taking over Shimizu's position to lead efforts to control the crisis. EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON
A Japanese family clears their flattened home of rubble in search of salvageable goods and memorabilia in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan on 30 March 2011. Seawater near Japan's quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant has a much higher level of radiation than previously reported, officials say. EPA/STEPHEN MORRISON