regularly
in Japan. Relief workers, soldiers and police have been deployed to the disaster zone, including the port city of Sendai, where a clean-up operation is getting underway. From there, our reporter Nick Ravenscroft.
Crushed together, piled into
improbable
stacks, stuck in fields or poking out of ditches, thousands of cars still lie where the surge of water left them. Each has to be checked by the rescuers in case there's a body inside. There have been reports that in some areas, the teams have been
running out of
bags to put corpses in. Away from the area which was
inundate
d by the tsunami, the queues outside shops remain, and the shelves inside are still largely empty.
It's difficult for lorries to get through with deliveries given the disruption to the transport network.
The crisis in Japan has led to growing international concern about the safety of nuclear power. Germany, Switzerland and India are among those who've promised to reassess safety issues. Here's Maddy Savage.
Germany was one of the first countries to announce a change in direction. All German nuclear plants will now be checked for safety, and recent plans to extend their lifespans have been
put on hold
for three months. The Swiss government said that no new plants would be approved there until more is known about what caused the accident in Japan, and India also argued for a
renew
ed focus on safety standards.