MASHIKI, Japan — A still shocked resident from a town in southern Japan recounted his terror the previous night as he examined the damage Friday from a powerful earthquake that brought down buildings and left nine people dead. "It's as if all control was lost, I thought I was going to die and I couldn't bear it any longer," said Yuichiro Yoshikado, who was taking a bath in his apartment in the hardest-hit town of Mashiki. "I grabbed onto the sides of the bathtub, but the water in the tub, it was about 70 percent filled with water, was going like...
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