For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com<br />Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision<br />Follow us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevision<br /><br />It's been two weeks since the deadly earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. Now, on Japan's northeastern coast, residents are starting the clean up to regain a sense of normalcy in their lives that has long since been lost.<br /><br />Two weeks on from the devastating earthquake and tsunami, Kamaishi residents began to clean up the area as they tried to rebuild their lives.<br /><br />The tsunami has left 27,000 people are dead or missing, seventy thousand have left their homes.<br /><br />Amid the suffering, though, there was a sense that Japan was turning the corner in its humanitarian crisis. Aid flowed to refugees, and phone, electricity, postal and bank services began returning to some areas in the north.<br /><br />However in Kamaishi, power lines still dangle from broken electricity poles and residents have been told that gas supplies are only likely to be restored in around a month and a half to two months.<br /><br />Owners of small businesses began cleaning up their premises in the worst-hit areas.<br /><br />[Yuko Sasaki, Fish Store Owner]:<br />"Well, it feels like nothing has been cleaned up. So the debris from the houses, from the businesses, has all been gathering here."<br /><br />A few shops down, a family running a coffee shop had cleared out most of the debris.<br /><br />Their relative, Maro Kariya, a student in Tokyo came to help.<br /><br />[Maro Kariya, Student]:<br />"I guess everybody is just trying to get back on their feet. It's not really a situation where everybody knows what's going to happen and what to do next. We're just trying our best to clean everything up and have some sort of life again."<br /><br />The estimated $300 billion in damage from the quake and tsunami makes this the world's costliest natural disaster.
