About 25 000 Japanese soldiers searched a swamp on Monday with the help of thin poles and cleared debris in a massive operation to find the remains of some 12 000 people missing in the earthquake and tsunami last month. This is the third military search operation from the March 11 disaster, which destroyed buildings, wiped out entire villages and would have left 26,000 dead along the northeastern coast of Japan.
To withdraw water, the authorities expect the gangs, which also include police, Coast Guard and U.S. military made significant progress during the two-day operation. By Monday morning 38 bodies had been found. In the village of Shichigahamamachi, two dozen soldiers while walking on flooded areas and muddy puddles, sinking thin metal bars about 60 centimeters (two feet) on the ground to ensure that never failed to detect a buried body below the surface.
The search was concentrated in a swamp drained in recent weeks by members of 22 Army infantry regiment, using bombs in special tanks. Several dozen soldiers cleared piles of rubble with their hands in front of a neighborhood located on the beach and full of damaged houses. Four people from the neighborhood are still missing, said Sannojo Watanabe, 67.
"There was my home," he said, pointing to a bare foundation. And looking around muttered: "There is nothing left." In total, about 370 soldiers of the regiment were looking for a dozen people still missing in Shichigahamamachi. The regiment had been combing the area with a much smaller contingent, but tripled the number for the search operation for two days, said Col.
Akira Kun Itom, commander of the regiment. The search is much harder than the earthquake victims, most of which would be under the rubble, said Michihiro Ose spokesman regiment. The tsunami may have spread to victims everywhere, and even if any dragged into the sea. "We do not know where are the bodies," he said.
It is likely that the bodies who are after so many weeks of the disaster are unrecognizable, black and swollen, said Ose. "I do not even know if they are men or women," he said. A total of 24 000 800 troops, backed by 90 helicopters and planes were sent to comb the wreckage for human remains buried, while 50 vessels and 100 Navy divers searched the waters over a 20-km (12 miles) of coastline in order to find those who were swept out to sea.
"It's been over a month since I took the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, but there are still many people missing," said ministry spokesman Defense Muratani Norikazu. It was confirmed that more than 14 thousand 300 people have died and nearly 11 thousand 900 are still missing. In a first pass of the military exhaustive search and found 339 bodies found in a second round of another 99, said Muratani.
The number of remains found Monday was not yet available. In the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, many bodies were found on Indonesian beaches several months after retiring as the population debris as part of reconstruction work. However, 37 000 of 164 000 people killed in Indonesia simply disappeared and are presumed remains were to stop the sea. 
To withdraw water, the authorities expect the gangs, which also include police, Coast Guard and U.S. military made significant progress during the two-day operation. By Monday morning 38 bodies had been found. In the village of Shichigahamamachi, two dozen soldiers while walking on flooded areas and muddy puddles, sinking thin metal bars about 60 centimeters (two feet) on the ground to ensure that never failed to detect a buried body below the surface.
The search was concentrated in a swamp drained in recent weeks by members of 22 Army infantry regiment, using bombs in special tanks. Several dozen soldiers cleared piles of rubble with their hands in front of a neighborhood located on the beach and full of damaged houses. Four people from the neighborhood are still missing, said Sannojo Watanabe, 67.
"There was my home," he said, pointing to a bare foundation. And looking around muttered: "There is nothing left." In total, about 370 soldiers of the regiment were looking for a dozen people still missing in Shichigahamamachi. The regiment had been combing the area with a much smaller contingent, but tripled the number for the search operation for two days, said Col.
Akira Kun Itom, commander of the regiment. The search is much harder than the earthquake victims, most of which would be under the rubble, said Michihiro Ose spokesman regiment. The tsunami may have spread to victims everywhere, and even if any dragged into the sea. "We do not know where are the bodies," he said.
It is likely that the bodies who are after so many weeks of the disaster are unrecognizable, black and swollen, said Ose. "I do not even know if they are men or women," he said. A total of 24 000 800 troops, backed by 90 helicopters and planes were sent to comb the wreckage for human remains buried, while 50 vessels and 100 Navy divers searched the waters over a 20-km (12 miles) of coastline in order to find those who were swept out to sea.
"It's been over a month since I took the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, but there are still many people missing," said ministry spokesman Defense Muratani Norikazu. It was confirmed that more than 14 thousand 300 people have died and nearly 11 thousand 900 are still missing. In a first pass of the military exhaustive search and found 339 bodies found in a second round of another 99, said Muratani.
The number of remains found Monday was not yet available. In the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, many bodies were found on Indonesian beaches several months after retiring as the population debris as part of reconstruction work. However, 37 000 of 164 000 people killed in Indonesia simply disappeared and are presumed remains were to stop the sea.
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