The heaviest damage was in Sendai City, where about 100 Seven Elevens were damaged.

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Roads and buildings showed cracks as far away as 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Sendai, the closest city to the epicenter.

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Further illustration of Mr. Shimabukuro's credo comes in a segment of Mr. Nakamura's documentary from a senior shelter in the Japanese city of Sendai, devastated by the twin disasters of Fukushima.

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The city of Sendai is experiencing a building boom.

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The Salvation Army says it is sending a team to Sendai, the most heavily damaged city, tonight and tomorrow will start providing basic necessities.

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In the city of Minamisoma, about 90 kiliometers south of Sendai, all that was left of many structures were their foundations.

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Members of the Sendai scientific community were amply represented in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the Japanese city of Nagoya, in mid-October 2010.

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