New pictures are emerging of the moment the tsunami struck northeastern Japan.<br /><br />Terrified residents rushed to the safety of higher ground and watched houses being crushed like tin cans and cars washed away.<br />Rescue teams are searching for the missing along hundreds of kilometers of coast.<br /><br />They're combing through towns and villages that have been reduced to splinters.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Azhar Sukri reports.
