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Tokyo – Japanese police on Sunday found an 80-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy alive under piles of rubble 9 days after a massive earthquake and tsunami that rocked north-eastern Japan, while the number of deaths and those missing from the disaster surpassed 20,000. The two – Sumi Abe and her grandchild Jin Abe – answered police calls in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, one of the worst-hit areas, and public broadcaster NHK showed footage of helicopter transporting them to a local hospital. The two were eating a meal when the 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck the region. They managed to survive, eating some food in the refrigerator. Sumi got mildly dehydrated while Jin suffered from hypothermia.