Tens of thousands of corpses still remain a mystery in northern Japan because of the cleaning crew is being pressed to find the belongings of people from the ruins of the former earthquake clean.Heavy machinery have been used to lift the cars were destroyed, the roofs are falling and stone blocks that collapsed under the weight of water when an earthquake and tsunami struck on 11 March.
The operators of heavy machinery are sympathetic to people who watch the house while they are doing. Always, as soon as a homeowner to see something worthwhile, work stopped so that valuables can be retrieved.
Goods are usually trivial items that are not worth the money, but it holds sentimental value.
Often, the pieces of these goods is a reminder of a lost family member.
"Everyone has been very good," Sakuji Funayama, 77, said at the remains of his house in the city Kesennuma.
"They all stop whenever we see any other things that."
Funuyama newly rediscovered a backpack full of blisters which has belonged to her son who has long since moved many years ago.
Nearly 25,000 soldiers yesterday until today was called in to do the largest search the rubble in the towns and villages along the coast of the most severely affected.
His job is to find 11,999 people still listed missing. Until now, the bodies of 14 300 people have been found.
Search teams and those responsible for cleaning the rubble, rotting garbage and broken roads are a race against time before the heat and humidity of summer months the Japanese arrive within a few weeks.
Many bodies recovered from the rubble was partially decomposed and form bone, while the bodies are found in the flooded rice fields or were swept into the sea, black and swollen.
The bodies which had rotted not shown to people who are looking for relatives because it would be too sad.
In addition, family members were asked to identify loved ones from the clothes they found, the contents of the bag or jewelry.
Officials estimate that it may need one year to collect all these ruins, which will be moved to places where the ruins are processed and discarded. It took another two years. Removal of debris in large numbers, a scattering of tall stacks have been compressed into four floors, are also hampered by the residents who returned to save the property.
According to the government, 125,000 buildings were destroyed and the cost of repair of damage to homes, businesses and industries likely to reach £ 184 billion.
"It's been over a month since the earthquake and tsunami, but we still have a lot of people missing," said Norikazu Muratani, a spokesman for the defense. "We want to find them and return them to families."
More than six weeks after the earthquake, chances are thousands of people will never be found.
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