Quake Aftermath: Fleeing Fukushima

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  Airports, train stations and bus depots across Japan were crowded with evacuees and regular passengers on Thursday following advisories from foreign governments recommending citizens leave the country, as the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in the northeast deepened.
  
  A frustrated foreign traveller rests his head while stranded at Narita international airport due to the cancellation or delay of his flight Thursday, March 17, 2011 in Narita, Japan.
  AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko
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  Evacuees, who are afraid of possible nuclear power plant's meltdown in Fukushima Prefecture, and vacationers queue up to check in their flights at Narita International airport Thursday, March 17, 2011 in Narita, Japan.
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  Chinese citizens wait at a check-in area at Narita airport, near Tokyo, Thursday, March 17, 2011.
  AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko
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  Evacuees watch a TV news reporting the crisis of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, Thursday, March 17, 2011.
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  Passengers crowd a check-in area at Narita airport, near Tokyo, Thursday, March 17, 2011.
  AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko
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  Passengers wait for their flights at a check-in area at Narita airport, near Tokyo, Thursday, March 17, 2011.
  AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko
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  Hundreds of travellers wait for delayed flights out of Yamagata airport, Thursday, March 17, 2011, in Yamagata Prefecture, northern Japan.
  AP Photo/Wally Santana
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  Australian officials, in yellow bib, and New Zealand official, in orange, talk to an Australian citizen to help to return his motherland at Narita airport, near Tokyo, Thursday, March 17, 2011.
  AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko
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  A mother and her daughters wait for delayed flights out of Yamagata airport, Thursday, March 17, 2011, in Yamagata Prefecture, northern Japan.
  AP Photo/Wally Santana
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  A Hong Kong immigration official guides a Hong Kong citizen at their help desk set up at Narita airport, near Tokyo, Thursday, March 17, 2011.
  AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko
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  Children wait in a vehicle for their parents taking their belongings from the family's devastated home before heading to a makeshift shelter in Kamaishi, northern Japan, Thursday, March 17, 2011, after Friday's earthquake and tsunami.
  AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Yasuhiro Takami
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  People stand in falling snow as they queue for a bus to leave town in Sendai, Japan, Thursday, March 17, 2011. Sendai is one of Japan's northeast coast towns devastated by Friday's earthquake and tsunami it spawned.
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  People stand in falling snow as they queue for a bus to leave town in Sendai, Japan, Thursday, March 17, 2011.
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  A mother protects her baby from driving snow as they queue for a bus to leave town in Sendai, Japan, Thursday, March 17, 2011.
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  A woman who only gave her family name, Shirakawa, cries as she talks about catching a bus to leave town in Sendai, Japan, Thursday, March 17, 2011.
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  Jason Holland, from Cambridge, Britain, is ready to board into a limousine bus to Narita International Airport to fly out of Japan at his company's order at Tokyo City Air Terminal Thursday, March 17, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan.
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  A passenger from Japan passes through a scanner to check radiation level at Incheon international airport, west of Seoul Thursday, March 17, 2011.
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  Foreigners wait in line for the re-entry procedure at immigration center in Tokyo Thursday, March 17, 2011.
  AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Norimitsu Masuda
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  Chinese trainees gather to get information how to go back home in front of an evacuation center in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Wednesday, March 16, 2011, five days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami slammed northeastern Japan.
  AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Makoto Kondo
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  Chinese citizens crowd at a check-in counter at Niigata airport in Niigata to get out of Japan Wednesday, March 16, 2011 in fear of further earthquakes as well as deteriorating nuclear power plant incident following Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami.
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  Victims wave at their family members on a bus as they get out of Miyako, northern Japan, Wednesday, March 16, 2011, after Friday's earthquake and tsunami.
  AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Takashi Ozaki
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  Chinese citizens working in Japan wave as they leave the city of Koriyama on Wednesday March 16, 2011 for an airport to evacuate from Japan following last week's massive earthquake and resulting tsunami.
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  Chinese citizens evacuating from Japan arrive on a flight at the airport in Shanghai on Wednesday March 16, 2011.
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  A Filipino crewman who survived the tsunami in Japan waves from the bus as he arrives together with 19 other seafarers at Manila's International Airport, Philippines on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Filipino crewmen of a cargo ship that was battered by last week's giant tsunami have returned home to the Philippines thankful to have survived what they thought was their end in the frigid waters of Japan.
  AP Photo/Aaron Favila
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  Rafael Macalindong, a Filipino crewman who survived the tsunami in Japan, right, hugs his wife Myrna as he arrives together with 19 other seafarers at Manila's International Airport, Philippines on Wednesday, March 16, 2011.
  AP Photo/Aaron Favila
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