By PATRICK J. LYONS
Published: March 17, 2011
With the world's attention riveted on the unfolding nuclear crisis in northeast Japan, the more immediate toll from the powerful earthquake and tsunami continued to mount on Thursday, as more deaths were confirmed, more foreigners prepared to leave the country and more of the disaster's wide-reaching effects came into focus.
read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/wo..._r=1&ref=world
Japan earthquake: Survivors battle disease and hunger
Japan's emergency services are struggling to cope as freezing weather, a lack of medicines and insanitary conditions make survival a challenge.
By Julian Ryall, Ishinomaki, northern Japan 5:08PM GMT 19 Mar 2011
Katsumi Hosokawa's eyes are red-rimmed and he sniffs constantly. He kneels on a bed of cardboard on the second floor of a school that has been turned into temporary accommodation for those who lost their homes in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
"I've had an upset stomach ever since I've been here but they tell me there's no medicine," he says, pulling a blanket closer around him. "But the worst thing is the cold. It was minus four in here last night. I guess it will be the same again tonight."
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