Isolated Japanese island tries to fend for itself after tsunami

OSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Susumu Sugawara steers his boat "Himawari" past burnt-out ships and through flotsam to the small island of Oshima, providing residents with their only link to the outside world, two weeks after an earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan.

The 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami killed more than 10,000 people and about 17,500 are missing. With the cost of damage estimated at $300 billion, it is the world's costliest natural disaster.