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Another earthquake rocks Japan
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake has struck off the north east coast of Japan, as the region struggles to recover from last month’s devastating quake and tsunami. Alex Thomson speaks to people in Japan.
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Liam Gallagher on Japan’s ‘horrific’ tsunami
Liam Gallagher performs with his band Beady Eye at the Brixton Academy tonight in a concert to raise money for victims of last month’s Japan tsunami. Alex Thomson spoke to him after the sound check.
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Japanese nuclear power plant: friend of foe?
A nuclear plant in Japan, which is experiencing problems after the quake and tsunami, has taken in hundreds of local people who are homeless after the disaster. Alex Thomson tries to get inside to find out the full story but is denied access.
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Japan: 'Tsunami – what tsunami?'
Alex Thomson on the remarkable effort to keep Japan’s airports operational just ten days after the devastating tsunami.
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Japan: the town that lost its walls but kept its dignity
The town of Taro’s walls are in ruins; an earth and concrete embankment gouged and worn to nothing by the influx of thousands of tonnes of Pacific Ocean, blogs Alex Thomson from Japan.
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Japan's devastation and efficiency in the wake of tragedy
Nine days after the tsunami devastated Japan, Alex Thomson meets a family who have travelled hundreds of miles to say farewell to a missing loved-one.
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Japan food fears as engineers battle to cool nuclear plant
Japan is considering banning the sale of food from Fukushima due to radiation. Teams are trying to restore power to the nuclear plant and Alex Thomson says businesses are closing early to save energy.
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Japan: the ruins of Kamaishi
Channel 4 News Alex Thomson reports from Kamaishi where blizzards and ice now blanket a village whose massive tsunami protection walls failed to save its people last Friday.
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Japan: calm amidst desolation
Walking the upturned streets of Ofunato in Japan, Alex Thomson paints a desolate scene of destruction in another day witnessing what he says is the worst disaster he has visited in his career.
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Japan: operating as a journalist in the quakezone
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson on working in post-tsunami Japan where food is scarce but journalists are given rare access to worst-hit areas.
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Tsunami: rescuers reach ‘desolate’ town of Ofunato
British aid workers have reached the remote tsunami hit Japanese town of Ofunato, which Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson describes as “desolation, almost beyond words.”
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After the floods, Kesennuma burns
Alex Thomson is in the town of Kesannuma, or certainly in what used to be Kesannuma. It has been obliterated by the tsunami and raging fires are headed in from the peripheries.
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Japan: queues in the face of devastation
No supplies, no petrol, no food – but no panic. The Japanese deal with their tsunami tragedy with silence and dignity, writes Alex Thomson.
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Japan disaster: Kesennuma hit by quake, tsunami and fire
Boats litter the road after slamming into Kesennuma, one of the worst-hit places in Japan’s quake disaster. Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson reports on the desolation left there by the tsunami.
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Minamisanriku: Japan’s tsunami-hit ground zero
Alex Thomson reports from the devastated port Minamisanriku. He says in 30 years as a war correspondent – covering over 20 wars and several major earthquakes – he’s never seen anything on this scale.
