Baby in iconic tsunami photo safe with parents (JAPAN)

ISHINOMAKI, Japan (AP) -- A Japanese soldier grins as he cradles a tiny baby in a fuzzy pink blanket, plucked from a wreckage-blocked house three days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami flattened much of the country's northeastern coastline.

The moment -- captured by a photographer from a leading Japanese daily and published by newspapers and websites worldwide -- evoked a rare glimmer of hope amid so much destruction and death from the March 11 disasters that killed an estimated 26,000 people.

Weeks later, 5-month-old Iroha Ishikawa is now healthy and safe, living at a shelter inside an elementary school with her parents in Ishinomaki, 200 miles (320 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo.

"I'm happy that we were rescued, but there is a lot of sadness behind it -- many families didn't make it," the infant's mother, Yuki Ishikawa, tells The Associated Press.


http://mdn.mainichi.jp/features/news/20110420p2g00m0fe084000c.html
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I have to admit, after seeing this photo, I wondered what would happen with the cute
little akachan!