audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - 'I will not stop searching until I find all of her remains' These are the heartbreaking words of 51-year-old Norio Kimura, a man whose daughter Yuna, then 7, went missing during the tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Seven years after the disaster, family members in Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate prefectures are still searching and identifying the bodies of those who went missing, and as time goes on they have fewer clues to work with. Relatives try to bring closure to their loss, years after the disaster that killed nearly 16,000 people along Japan's northeastern coast and left more than 2,500 missing. Kimura, who lost his father, wife and daughter in the 2011 tsunami, searches for his missing younger daughter Yuna near his home inside the exclusion zone in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. Every month, Kimura returns to Okuma in search of Yuna's remains, looking through piles of debris of dirt mixed with driftwood, blocks of concrete, utility poles and clothes of all sizes and colors on Okuma beach for any signs of his daughter. He is allowed to enter only one area of Okuma for up to a maximum 30 visits a year and stay for up to five hours per visit due to it being restricted because of the high radiation levels. In Fukushima Prefecture, a number of areas are still designated as no-go zones due to high radiation levels caused by the reactor meltdowns at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Police in the coastal area also play an important role in search efforts, by checking DNA samples and dental charts against the remains, for positive identification. Fukushima family members continue today to look for the bodies of their loved ones as they try to bring closure to their loss.
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October 31, 2015 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - A large-scale search took place before the construction of an interim storage facility to store the nuclear contaminated waste. But it was only once.
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March 27, 2015 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - NORIO KIMURA gazes at the inside of the classroom where his daughter, Yuna, had attended. The classroom had been left as it was on the day of the disaster. 'I remember coming here for the athletic festival. It brings back memories so I couldn't come back until now', Kimura said.
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June 14, 2015 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - NORIO KIMURA and his comrades search a rubble yard.
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December 23, 2014 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - NORIO KIMURA frequents his house in the radioactive restricted zone in Fukushima to search for his seven year old daughter, Yuna. On March 11th 2011, Kimura's father, wife and Yuna became victims of the tsunami. Evacuation orders issued the day after the nuclear accident prevented him from entering town to search for them. The town of Okuma is where the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Station is located, and following the accident, almost all area of the town has been designated as a 'difficult-to-return' zone, prohibiting entry without special permission. Residents were allowed short returns to their houses thirty times per year now. Kimura goes to his town to search for Yuna. At last, On December 9th 2016, Kimura found her bones from debris and hugged her after five years and nine months' absence.
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May 2, 2016 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - NORIO KIMURA and his comrades sow the seeds of flowers on the field of the evacuation zone in Okuma town. He wanted his daughter, Yuna, to see these beautiful flowers from heaven.
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November 11, 2017 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - The clock of the kindergarten that his daughter Yuna attended remains stuck at the time the earthquake occurred.
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July 5, 2015 - Okuma, Fuksuhima, Japan - NORIO KIMURA offers flowers to the small stone statue made for Yuna.
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March 19, 2016 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - NORIO KIMURA brings flowers to the small stone statue made for Yuna.
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May 23, 2015 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - NORIO KIMURA went into a classroom where Yuna went to school for the first time though more than 4 years has passed from the tsunami. There were a lot of traces of Yuna.
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February 25, 2015 - Hakuba, Nagano, Japan - Photos of Yuna and Kimura's wife are pinned to the walls of the house in Hakuba, Nagano where Kimura and his first daughter, Mayu are staying.
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December 10, 2016 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - NORIO KIMURA gazes at photos that were found in a rubble yard.
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November 13, 2015 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - NORIO KIMURA and his comrades found Yuna's jersey that she wore at her school from the rubble yard.
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October 11, 2015 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - Kimura's comrades help him with searching for his missing daughter, and line up clothes that they found during the search.
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December 13, 2016 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - Clothing and a scarf along with bones were found in the rubble. Yuna was wearing these on that day.
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December 11, 2016 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - NORIO KIMURA holds Yuna's bones that came out of the rubble. He hugged his daughter for the first time in about 6 years.
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March 19, 2016 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - NORIO KIMURA and his comrades plant flowers in the evacuation zone. He wants his daughter, Yuna, to see these beautiful flowers from heaven.
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March 23, 2016 - Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan - Kimura had come to participate in the ceremony to receive his daughter's graduation certification on her behalf.
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March 19, 2016 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - NORIO KIMURA brings her daughter's bag found during the search.
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December 27, 2016 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - A public search that has never been done begins six years later.
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January 4, 2017 - Mimasaka, Okayama, Japan - Kimura carried the found remains to the house of his wife's parents in Okayama prefecture. He and Yuna come here every summer.
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January 5, 2017 - Okuma, Fukushima, Japan - Family picture taken a few months before the disaster. Kimura's father, wife and second daughter has passed away.
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January 4, 2017 - Mimasaka, Okayama, Japan - The mother of Kimura's wife hugged the box containing the bones of his granddaughter Yuna.
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February 5, 2016 - Okuma, Fuksuhima, Japan - Kimura has placed three stone jizo statues for Yuna and strung up lights on the hill behind his destroyed house.
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January 5, 2017 - Hakuba, Nagano, Japan - Family picture taken after Yuna's bones came back to the house where Kimura and his first daughter live.
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