Winter blast compounds crisis for half a million homeless

JAPAN'S tsunami-ravaged coast has now been hit by an unseasonally late snow dump, compounding the deprivations for 550,000 homeless survivors and millions more who are living without adequate supplies and services.
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Yesterday morning, a line outside a central Sendai supermarket stretched for 700 metres, three people wide, in freezing temperatures and bucketing snow, waiting for the doors to open.