Japanese town of Yuriage 'wiped from the map'

14 March 2011 Last updated at 17:30 ET Help

The BBC's Damian Grammaticas has travelled to a tsunami-hit town in eastern Japan, which he says was "once a pleasant fishing port" but has been "wiped from the map".

Yuriage was home to more than 7,000 people before Friday, but now rubble is all that remains.

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