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More than 60 percent of municipalities in the northeastern prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi do not plan to relocate their city or town halls despite being designated as areas at risk of flooding in the event of a large-scale tsunami, a Kyodo News survey shows.

With the roads cut off by the massive tsunami, Masahiro Oka arrived on foot in his hometown on March 12, 2011, a day after the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake. The sight before him was as promised: destruction all around.

Japans quake disaster, u.s. budget battle and rising gas prices generating lots of debate on the sunday morning talk shows. here are some of the highlights. >> what youre saying here is that we should have a moratorium now on building nuclear plants, just kind of stop and reassess? >> i think we have got to -- i dont want to stop the building of nuclear power plants but i think we have got to quietly and quickly put the brakes on until we can absorb what has happened in japan. >> my thought abou...

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