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World Service,2 mins

Staying alive: the first day after the tsunami

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Hiromitsu Shinkawa, who survived the 2011 Japanese Tsunami by riding the tin roof of a destroyed home, describes his first day adrift and alone on his makeshift raft and the thoughts that kept him going and kept him alive. Image credit: Thinkstock

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