Under gray winter sky, a ship of the Japan Coast Guard on the water turn on their way patiently on the beach full of debris and garbage left by the tsunami.
Because the cold gray waters the other extreme there are hundreds, maybe thousands of bodies who have not been found. They were killed in the attack the most terrible fury of nature in Japan happening today 11/3 last year.
The daily quest is happening in the city's coast Oshinomaki, Miyagy province, one of the three provinces most severely damaged in the tsunami. Nevertheless, since November, the coastguard has not found a victim, other than the body of a dead were caught in fishing nets, Mr. Yoshifumi Suzuki, a member search team, said.
But they did not give up the task.
"If we do not, then who does?" Suzuki said.
"We want to continue this work until the last person to find. I want to bring these people back to their families. It is not only responsible for my employees, that is my obligation as how a human being. "
"Those who are missing loved ones in the heart of him / her, and their families want a proof that they lived in this world. I think they have great difficulty accepting the truth" if not a relative found the bodies.
Terrible tsunami struck northeastern Japan after the earthquake on 11/3 that khaongr 20,000 people lost their lives. Just one in six people died who never found.
In the port city of Ishinomaki and Onagawa town nearby, both of which were shattered tsunami smashed, 20% of deaths are still out statistics on the missing list, even though no one dared to believe that they still alive somewhere.
"If the ocean over, maybe we can find people. It's hard," said Suzuki Shimakaze ship tonnage was 26 tons.
Snow sometimes difficult to do more for the work of a crew of 5 persons on board when they had to try to strain your eyes looking through a mist that is sea. They also use sonar equipment to detect the car was submerged or other debris may be trapped bodies of victims. If you see any object can be a person, they will call to divers. But poor visibility, only one meter below the water, along with the cold weather makes the divers could only stay in water for several minutes.
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, Shimakaze captain, still remember the horror that the tsunami brought, and also the first day he embarked on the search for the remains of the victims.
When you hear a tsunami warning, Kikuchi sailing out to sea to protect the ship, waves at the shore by smaller and more easily steer the ship. He saw a huge wall of water away from his seat about 10 km.
"That's the biggest waves I've ever seen on earth," he says. "Then I saw garbage floating out from the shore - everything from the houses were smashed, cars tires for both the cargo containers - it was quite frightening."
His way back to shore was blocked by a huge mass of material away from the shore. Kikuchi was not until three days later to return the land and began the search for the dead. He has done this job for months, and finding more and more difficult. "We're always my best effort," Kikuchi said.
On land, in Kesennuma, the city was destroyed by the tsunami and all the fires then, no one is found since May 12, though police continue to work.
For young parents with children in elementary school who studied Okawa, the tragedy will only end when the bodies of 74 children were returned to them. Nestled in the thick coating withstands the cold cut the skin of January, four men patiently digging in the dirt layer, perseverance to continue the forward looking sad what remained of the children.
"Still have not seen the children. We are here looking for the child to be home soon," one of the men said. Near them, two police officers increase from the Tokyo vows before the altar are in memory 74 students and 10 teachers and faculty members killed Monday 11/3 last year.
"I am very sad," said a police officer. "I witnessed the desperate parents looking for child, even one taken by her mother motor control device to search for missing children.
"I think the pain will never subside in their hearts ... but I hope people will soon be missing home."
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