SENDAI -- A technical college in Sendai has developed a self-propelled robot equipped with ground-penetrating radar, which it recently deployed to search for four elementary school children missing since the tsunami caused by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
The search was conducted Sunday on the coast of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, at the request of Miho Suzuki, 54, whose daughter Hana went missing in the disaster as a fourth grader at Okawa Elementary School.
"It's OK if it takes some time, but I want them to find Hana at any cost," Suzuki said watching over the search, her face fixed as though in prayer.
