TOKYO: Japan confronted devastation along its northeastern coast on Saturday, with fires raging and parts of some cities under water after a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed at least 1,000 people. ( See: Quake, tsunami hit Japan ) Daybreak revealed the full extent of the damage from Friday’s 8.9 magnitude earthquake — the strongest in Japan since records began — and the 10-metre high tsunami it sent surging into cities and villages, sweeping away everything in its path. “This is likely to be a humanitarian relief operation of epic proportions,” Japan expert Sheila Smith of the US-based Council on Foreign Relations wrote in a commentary. In one of the worst-hit residential…
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