The heaviest damage was in Sendai City, where about 100 Seven Elevens were damaged.
Greg Timberlake, forward commander of the III Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Sendai in northern Japan, said.
On Saturday, six of the helicopters delivered 76 barrels of kerosene to several distribution points north of Sendai.
Masuoka, now a professor at Tohoku University at Sendai in northern Japan, expects to have the last laugh.
Sendai, one of the largest cities in northeastern Japan has seen 260, 000 people evacuated in the past three days.
The recovery workers, from laborers to construction executives, are also spending, bringing business for Sendai's hotels, bars and restaurants.
Sendai joined 20 other cities throughout Japan last year to become a member of Local Governments for Sustainability ( ICLEI).
Roads and buildings showed cracks as far away as 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Sendai, the closest city to the epicenter.
In the city of Minamisoma, about 90 kiliometers south of Sendai, all that was left of many structures were their foundations.
People were quite surprised when we showed that Sendai last April had lower radiation than New York, Berlin, Beijing, Singapore and Seoul.
But one thing is clear amid the chaos and tragedy of Sendai.
Video from Sendai showed people trapped in the second floors of homes, waving sheets of white cloth in hopes of drawing rescue workers.
Last February, I stood on the rooftop of Nakano Elementary School in Sendai and contemplated the vast open plains near the ocean front.
The Salvation Army says it is sending a team to Sendai, the most heavily damaged city, tonight and tomorrow will start providing basic necessities.
Last week it was a rendition of "Return to Sendai" mocking the chances of "gli azzurri" making it back to Japan for the final.
The news agency, citing Japan's defense forces, also said 60, 000 to 70, 000 people were being evacuated to shelters in the Sendai area of Miyagi Prefecture.
One of those factories in Utsunomiya, about 60 miles north of Tokyo and 130 miles from Sendai, is currently out of production after employees safely evacuated.
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Unlike Kobe, full of old, ramshackle buildings and shoddily constructed apartment blocks, Tokyo and other cities, including Sendai which was badly hit, have brought in new restrictions.
Members of the Sendai scientific community were amply represented in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the Japanese city of Nagoya, in mid-October 2010.
China was one of the first to send a rescue team, a 15-member crew many of whom are now scouring disaster areas in Sendai searching for survivors.
Further illustration of Mr. Shimabukuro's credo comes in a segment of Mr. Nakamura's documentary from a senior shelter in the Japanese city of Sendai, devastated by the twin disasters of Fukushima.
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Ms. Bokova went on to receive a warm welcome at the Sendai UNESCO Association, birthplace of a movement of non-governmental UNESCO activities in Japan soon after the first Club was created.
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The first Marine detachment sent to Camp Sendai, which lies just over 80 kilometers 50 miles north of the radiation-spewing power plants, came unprepared for the snowstorms, lacking standard-issue winter parkas and insulated boots.
Historically, residents of Sendai have endured great hardship.
Throughout his career, Ito's designs have been unusual, vivid and minimalistic -- from the aluminum house he designed for his sister to the Sendai Mediatheque in Miyagi, Japan, which he describes as his professional highlight.
On Sunday, the pace of assistance picked up as three U.S. Marine KC-130J cargo planes carrying water and supplies became the first flights to land at Sendai airport since it closed after the earthquake struck.
In addition, four Marine Sea Knight helicopters flew out of a U.S. Navy base in Atsugi near Tokyo with 18 pallets of clothing and two pallets of food to Yamada Radar Site, north of Sendai.
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