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Emergency personnel search the dunes and scrub near Oak Beach, N.Y., across the road from where eight bodies have been found. (Associated Press)
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This sushi assortment includes salmon roe, spicy tuna roll, tuna, yellowtail and salmon. The Food and Drug Administration is assuring Americans that food imported from the Pacific Ocean is safe, though increased safety inspections have been put in place. (The Washington Times)
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West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (center) attended a memorial service in Charleston for the coal miners who died a year ago, one of several services held in the state. Massey Energy Co., owner of the Upper Big Branch Mine where the 29 miners died, shut down production at all of its Appalachian sites in tribute. The cause of the tragedy is still being investigated. (Associated Press)
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A wreath and a list of the 29 miners who died at the Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion were placed at the state coal miners' memorial in Charleston, W.Va., on the first anniversary of the explosion. (Associated Press)
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Evacuees of all ages use the stairs at Rikuzen-Takata No. 1 Junior High to bide time and to keep their knees strong in case they have to escape from earthquake aftershocks or another tsunami. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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Steve Sharp stands outside the large storage building behind his home in Heath, Ky., near Paducah, on Monday, April 4, 2011. The building lost its roof when what is believed to be a severe thunderstorm struck the area Monday morning. (AP Photo/Paducah Sun, John Wright)
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A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 sits in a remote area of the Yuma International Airport in Yuma, Ariz., on Monday, April 4, 2011, after a 5-foot-long tear in the aircraft's fuselage forced an emergency landing at the airport Friday. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Japan Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa, on board the USS Ronald Reagan on Monday, thanked the U.S. for its aid after the March 11 tsunami that ravaged Japan, telling the Reagan crew, "The entire Japanese people are deeply moved." (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Debt tsunami by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times
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Naoki Suzuki, a truck driver, stands near the site of his home in downtown Rikuzen-Takata where his wife, Kazue, tried to ride out the tsunami as it rose above a nearby three-story apartment complex and post office. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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A woman (center) and others pray at her missing parents' house, which was devastated by the March 11 tsunami, in Rikuzentakata, Japan, on Monday, April 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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A member of the National Transportation Safety Board investigating the emergency landing of Southwest Airlines Flight 812 cuts away a portion of the plane's fuselage on Sunday in Yuma, Ariz. (AP Photo)
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission cites concern about too little oxygen and carbon dioxide buildup in the inflatable spheres known as "water walking balls." The commission is urging people to stay out of them because of a risk of suffocation or drowning. One company that sells the water balls says on its website that there is enough oxygen to last 30 minutes. (Associated Press/Consumer Product Safety Commission)
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Oceanographer Curt Ebbesmeyer displays a necklace made of ocean flotsam on Wednesday in Seattle. He expects the first items of flotsam from Japan's tsunamis and earthquake to hit West Coast beaches in a year. (Associated Press)
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A man walks Sunday over debris in an area devastated by the March 11 tsunami to search for his house and belongings in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. (Associated Press)
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Members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force conduct a search operation for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Saturday, April 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Norimitsu Masuda)
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A cellphone photo provided by passenger Joshua Hardwicke shows an apparent hole in the cabin of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 373-300 on Friday, April 1, 2011, as it makes an emergency decent into Yuma, Ariz. (AP Photo/Joshua Hardwicke)
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Oceanographer Curt Ebbesmeyer holds a necklace made of ocean flotsam as he talks about how debris from Japan will wash ashore in Washington, as he sits at a Puget Sound beach Wednesday, March 30, 2011, in Seattle. Ebbesmeyer, who has traced Nike sneakers, rubber bath toys and hockey gloves spilled from Asian shipping containers over the decades, expects the first items of flotsam from Japan's tsunamis and earthquake to hit West Coast beaches in a year. He says derelict fishing vessels may show up first, while other items like pieces from wooden homes and rubber survey stakes may take two to three years. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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FILE- Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot environmental activists protest against Turkey's plans to build a nuclear power plant on its southern coast near a seismic fault line, during a demonstration in the divided island's capital Nicosia, in this file photo dated Saturday, March 19, 2011. Turkey is pushing ahead on building a nuclear power plant close to an earthquake-prone Ecemis Fault area on the Mediterranean coast, dismissing fears from neighboring Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou who claims that Japan's nuclear disaster is a warning of the risks to the whole region.(AP Photo/Philippos Christou)
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This photo provided by passenger Christine Ziegler shows an apparent hole in the cabin on a Southwest Airlines aircraft Friday, April 1, 2011, in Yuma, Ariz. Authorities say the flight from Phoenix to Sacramento, Calif., was diverted to Yuma due to rapid decompression in the plane. (AP photo/Christine Ziegler)
