The Search Dog Foundation based in Ojai, California sent a dozen teams from around the country to Japan.
The team that flew on a chartered plane to a US Navy Base in Japan and then drove six hours to get to the most devastated areas.
Some of the dogs are credited with finding people buried alive in Haiti.
They hope to find survivors in Japan too but this time they have to take extra safety precautions because of the nuclear crisis.
Debra Tosch the Executive Director of the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation, says every team that goes out has an individual monitor measuring radiation levels so they know where to go and where not to go.
They dogs will keep searching as long as there is a chance they can find people still alive in the debris.
Just to clarify, the teams that went are deployed through USAID and are part of VA TF 1 and CA TF 2. Out of the 12 K9 teams in Japan, six were trained by the Search Dog Foundation.
MAY GOD BE WITH ALL THE DOGS, RESCUERS AND THE VICTIMS OF THIS TERRIBLE DEVASTATION.