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On the day of the earthquake and tsunami, Toyo Chiba was caught up by the tsunami and barely made it out alive in Kamaichi, Iwate Pref. Only a few seconds lapsed between the 4 photos.

Read this Japan Times story for the details of that day.

But weeks later, I saw on TV that he came back again looking for the camera that you can see him clearly holding. He said that the wave ripped the camera from his hands. The TV crew follows him around for a while as he looks for his camera....

.....and by gosh, he finds it, not too far from where he dropped it. It is all rusty. I wonder if he can get it cleaned up!