Search Moves Deep Into Radiation Zone
By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI NAMIE, Japan—Nearly five weeks after search teams first combed northeastern Japan’s tsunami-devastated shorelines for victims, they have ventured to the coastal town of Namie—once a hamlet of 20,000 people, now a time capsule of the March 11 tsunami’s destruction situated less than five miles from the badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. The Search in Namie View Slideshow Ko Sasaki for The Wall Street Journal Police searched for tsunami victims Friday. On Friday, 280 police and firefighters descended on the deserted town wearing white head-to-toe radiation suits, waterproof boots, rubber gloves and face masks, belatedly picking through thick mud…
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