Rescuers in Japan on Tuesday pulled two survivors, a woman and a man, from underneath the rubble four days after a powerful earthquake and devastating tsunami, public broadcaster NHK reported.
A 70-year-old woman was found alive in the quake-hit town of Otsuchi in Iwate prefecture, NHK said. She was suffering from hypothermia but was not in a life-threatening condition, it said, adding that she had been hospitalised.
A man in his 20s was rescued in the town of Ishimaki in hard-hit Miyagi prefecture, the network said.
"I was washed away by the tsunami but I am alright," NHK quoted the man as saying.
On Monday, emergency personnel found 2,000 bodies in Miyagi, local media reported, citing officials.