Alive! Sixteen-year-old Jin Abe is rescued after he and his 80-year-old grandmother survived nine days trapped in the wreckage of the Japan earthquake.
THE WORST: Yoshie Murakami sobs as she finds the body of her mother in the rubble near where she lived in tsunami- and earthquake-ravaged Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, yesterday.
Japan quake: Man found clinging to his roof after tsunami swept him 15km out to sea
AP
March 14, 20117:30AM
Hiromitsu Shinkawa waves to rescuers as they find the 60-year-old man floating off the coast of Fukushima's Futaba town on the roof of his house after being swept away in a tsunami. Picture: AP/Defense Ministry