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Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Pref., March 10 (Jiji Press) Police in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures conducted intensive operations in coastal areas on Wednesday to search for people who remain unaccounted for from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The Fukushima prefectural police department also plans to carry out a similar search operation on Thursday, the 10th anniversary of the disaster, which devastated coastal areas in the northeastern Japan prefectures.
In Iwate, where 1,111 people remain missing from the disaster, 73 personnel, mainly local police and coast guard officers, joined the search mission on the Nebama coast in the Unosumai district in Kamaishi. Ten years since the disaster and 10 years from now will be the same for the family members of those who remain unaccounted for, Chiharu Nakaya, head of the Iwate prefectural police department s Kamaishi police station, said. We will boost efforts to discover any clues on the missing people.
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Sendai, Miyagi Pref., Jan. 25 (Jiji Press) Nana, the oldest polar bear in Japan, died at a zoo in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sunday. She was 36 years and one month old, or over 100 years old in human years.
Nana died of liver cancer, according to Yagiyama Zoological Park.
She started to lose her appetite around April last year and had been under treatment since she was diagnosed with liver cancer. She was found dead at her enclosure by a keeper on Sunday morning.
Polar bears have an average life expectancy of 25-30 years.
Born at a zoo in Canada in 1984, Nana was transferred to Yagiyama Zoological Park in the following year. She gained popularity among visitors, who enjoyed watching her play in a pool with toys or roll around in the snow.