FUKUSHIMA CITY, Japan – Rescuers pulled a man alive from a wrecked house eight days after Japan's earthquake and tsunami Saturday as a crucial mission inched forward to rebuild power lines to a radiation-leaking nuclear plant crippled in the disaster.
As Japan crossed the one-week mark since the twin natural disasters spawned the nuclear crisis, the Japanese government conceded Friday it was slow to respond and welcomed ever-growing help from the United States in hopes of preventing a complete meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant.
The natural disasters claimed more than 7,200 lives, with many thousands more missing in an area struck first by a magnitude 9.0 quake and then an enormous wall of water that seemed to scrape the earth clean.
Rescues have been few, with the latest Saturday in the rubble of Kesennuma city, where a young man was pulled from a crushed house. He was too weak to talk and transferred immediately to a hospital, a military official said, declining to be named because he was not authorized to speak with reporters.
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