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Japan's Tsunami: Where Will the Orphans Go?

Americans clamoring to adopt children of the Japan tsunami's victims will likely be disappointed. Tony Dokoupil on what happens to orphans in a country where adoption is virtually unheard of.

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A young girl passes the time with her teddy bear at an evacuee center for leaked radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear facilities on Mar. 25, 2011 in Soma, Japan. (Photo: Wally Santana / AP Photo)

Days after the earth heaved and waves pummeled northern Japan, Western comment boards and blogs lit up over the fate of the tsunami's most vulnerable victims: the newly orphaned.

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