File photo of family members offering flowers to lost children at the site where a school was washed away in Ishinomaki. In the ravaged port city of Ishinomaki and the adjacent town of Onagawa, 20 ... more 

File photo of family members offering flowers to lost children at the site where a school was washed away in Ishinomaki. In the ravaged port city of Ishinomaki and the adjacent town of Onagawa, 20 percent of the 4,700 victims are still officially listed as missing, although no-one believes they will be found alive less