In Japan's disaster, the elderly have borne the brunt of the calamity. This became more and more clear as shocking and heartbreaking stories emerged on Friday from a nation hit hard by disaster and despair. "We feel very helpless and very sorry for them," said Chuei Inamura, a Fukushima government official. As retrieving bodies increasingly becomes the focus of rescue crews in Japan's northeast, it's clear that last Friday's quake and tsunami — believed to have killed 10,000 — took their heaviest toll on the elderly in this fast-aging nation, where nearly one person in four is over 65. Many, unable to flee fast enough, perished. Survivors have lost medicines. Hospitals have lost power and water. Sometimes, the consequences have been fatal.
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