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Wrapped in a beige blanket and surrounded by sea-soaked debris, broken homes and smashed cars, Yuko Sugimoto had only one thing on her mind: how to find her four-year-old son. She had not seen him for more than 24 hours, since the tsunami had swamped almost half of the city of Ishinomaki in northeastern Japan - with her son's kindergarten among the submerged buildings.
As Mrs Sugimoto's eyes scanned the wreckage of her hometown, her haunting expression was captured by a photographer who she does not recall seeing. The result was an iconic image of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan on March 11 last year, published in newspapers and magazines around the world. (telegraph.co.uk)