Eight days after the country’s devastating earthquake & tsunami, the Japanese military has found a man alive in wrecked house. Read more after the jump…
(FOX)–Self-Defense Forces rescuers pulled the young man from the rubble of a partially destroyed house in Kesennuma, a city located in the extreme northeast of the hard-hit Miyagi prefecture.
The man, identified as Katsuharu Moriya and aged in his 20s, was found about 9:00am local time and was sent to a hospital, Kyodo News reported.
SDF forces said he was unable to speak as he was suffering shock.
Japan’s northeast was hit by a massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami at 2:46pm on March 11.
According to police, 7,197 have been confirmed dead and more than 18,000 people remain unaccounted for.
