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A haunting return to tsunami-ravaged Minamisanriku
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson returns to Minamisanriku, a Japanese town devastated by the tsunami in March.
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Tsunami revisited: interactive map
Eight months on from a devastating tsunami, Channel 4 News returns to Japan. Follow our team’s journey live on our map with the latest photos, and videos as they travel through the disaster areas.
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Japan's tsunami towns still 'worse than war zones'
Channel 4 News cameraman Stuart Webb has covered several wars around the world but says the destruction wreaked by the Japanese tsunami is far worse – even eight months after it happened.
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Technical kit for Japan’s tsunami zone
Channel 4 News cameraman Stuart Webb empties his kit bag ahead of a return to Japan’s tsunami zone and explains what each piece of equipment does.
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Why it’s time to revisit Japan’s tsunami zone
Eight months after parts of Japan were obliterated by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami, Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson ponders his return to the worst-hit areas.
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The tsunami revisited – a cameraman’s perspective
Channel 4 News cameraman Stuart Webb often has to cover major stories at just a few hours’ notice. As he prepares to return to the Japan tsunami zone Stuart reflects on his last visit there.
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Tsunami revisited photo gallery
Flattened towns, floating cars and fallen buildings: images from the Japanese tsunami shocked the world. Now, as Channel 4 News returns, follow the team’s journey, in pictures here.
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Japan tsunami video: panic as people flee for their lives
New footage has emerged of Japanese residents trying desperately to outrun the incoming tsunami, as huge torrents of water crash through a coastal town carrying houses and people in its wake.
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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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New footage shows tsunami wave and damage to Fukushima plant
Newly released aerial footage from the day of Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, shows both the immediate damage to the Fukushima nuclear plant and the massive tsunami wave heading inshore.
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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’s miracle rescues nine days after tsunami
A pensioner and a teenager have been pulled alive from the rubble of the Japanese tsunami. The good news comes as officials say 15,000 people may have been killed in Miyagi prefecture alone.
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Amazing Japan tsunami video shows child rescue
Eyewitness footage of the tsunami striking Northern Japan and the subsequent scramble to rescue men, women and children from the flooded streets.
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Driver films tsunami engulfing his car
Footage filmed inside a moving car as the tsunami hits the road and covers the vehicle. The driver, who survived, tells local media: “I could do nothing but keep driving, it was terrifying.”
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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.”
