Boy looks for missing family in Japan
March 17th, 2011 - 2:13 pm ICT by IANSLondon, March 17 (IANS) A nine-year-old boy, who saw his entire family being swept away in Friday’s giant tsunami in Japan, everyday holds up a handwritten sign at shelters, but to no avail, it was reported here Thursday.
Daily Express reported that Toshihito Aisawa has become a familiar face at shelters in the port of Ishinomaki.
The survivors are not able to provide any information about the names on the handwritten sign he holds up each day. The sign carries the names his father Kazuyuki, mother Noriko, grandmother Kyoko and two cousins.
The distraught boy last saw them trapped in a car that was washed away in the tsunami that was triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake that rocked Japan. A giant wall of water hit Japan’s coast and caused massive devastation, leaving over 5,000 people dead.
Aisawa managed to get out of the car by breaking a window and he then lost consciousness. He was pulled out of the swirling waters.
Every day since then he visits the rescue centres to search for his family.
“When the roads clear up, I will check our home,” he says.
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