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Search resumes for earthquake survivors in Japan

Japanese rescuers are searching urgently through rubble for survivors ahead of predicted bitter cold and heavy rain, in what the prime minister calls a race against time after powerful earthquakes killed at least 73 people in western Japan.

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WARNING: Graphic content. A series of powerful earthquakes has hit western Japan, leaving dozens of people dead and damaging thousands of buildings and vehicles. Among the victims was a woman in the city of Suzu, whose husband watched on as her body was recovered from a wrecked house.
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Rescue workers search a collapsed house caused by powerful earthquake in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture Wednesday, Jan. 3.
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KYODO NEWS VIA AP

The cars are seen damaged as the city was hit by the earthquakes and tsunami in Suzu, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan Wednesday, Jan. 3.
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Evacuees rest surrounding a stove at a temporary evacuation center in Suzu in the Noto peninsula facing the Sea of Japan, northwest of Tokyo, Wednesday, Jan. 3, following Monday's deadly earthquake.
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Japanese Self Defense Force members inspect a collapsed house hit by earthquakes in Suzu, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan Wednesday, Jan. 3.
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Firefighters search a fallen building hit by earthquakes in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan Wednesday, Jan. 3.
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An evacuee volunteers to grill pieces of fish at a temporary evacuation center in Suzu in the Noto peninsula facing the Sea of Japan, northwest of Tokyo, Wednesday, Jan. 3, following Monday's deadly earthquake.
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KYODO NEWS VIA AP

People walk through the damaged marketplace burned by fire after earthquake in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan Tuesday, Jan. 2.
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Houses leveled by an earthquake are seen in Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan Tuesday, Jan. 2.
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A person walks past a collapsed houses following an earthquake in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan Tuesday, Jan. 2.
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A firefighter walks through the rubble and wreckage of a burned-out marketplace following earthquake in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan Tuesday, Jan. 2.
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People walk past collapsed buildings following an earthquake in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan Tuesday, Jan. 2.
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A person looks at a damaged house caused by powerful earthquake Tuesday, Jan. 2, near Anamizu town, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.
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KYODO NEWS VIA AP

A woman looks at the burned-out marketplace by a fire following earthquakes in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan Wednesday, Jan. 3.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

A woman bikes amid damaged houses in Noto town in the Noto peninsula facing the Sea of Japan, northwest of Tokyo, Tuesday, Jan. 2, following Monday's deadly earthquake.
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A man cries as a body of his family member was found from a collapsed house caused by powerful earthquake in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture Wednesday, Jan. 3.
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SOS letters formed by folding chairs are seen at a schoolyard after the strong earthquake in Suzu, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, Jan. 2.
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A partially collapsed road affected by landslide caused by a powerful earthquake is seen near Anamizu Town, Ishikawa Prefecture, Tuesday, Jan. 2.
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JAPANESE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE VIA AP

In this photo provided by Japanese Ministry of Defense, Japanese Self Defense Force members carry an injured person out of a collapsed house, following strong earthquakes in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, Tuesday, Jan. 2.

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