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[Amerigo Vespucci]

Scared and alone, Japanese farmer waited weeks for help

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42498312/ns/world_news-asiapacific/



Kunio Shiga, a farmer in Minami Soma, on Friday greets the first people he has seen since the tsunami.

MINAMI SOMA, Japan — The farmhouse sits at the end of a mud-caked, one-lane road strewn with toppled trees, the decaying carcasses of dead pigs and large debris deposited by the March 11 tsunami.

Stranded alone inside the unheated, dark home is 75-year-old Kunio Shiga. He cannot walk very far and doesn't know what happened to his wife.

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When a reporter and two photographers from The Associated Press arrived at Shiga's doorstep Friday, the scared and disoriented farmer said: "You are the first people I have spoken to" since the earthquake and tsunami.

"Do you have any food?" he asked. "I will pay you."