Images: Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami-One Year Later
Refugees look for photos of family members that were recovered from the rubble at an evacuation center in Rikuzentakata, northeastern Japan, Saturday, March 26, 2011, following the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and the subsequent crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex.
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In this photo taken Wednesday, March 16, 2011 and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News, smoke billows from wrecked Unit 4 at Japans crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture. Emergency crews worked to reconnect electricity to cooling systems and spray more water on overheating nuclear fuel at the tsunami-ravaged facility Friday.
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A woman searches through the rubble of her home destroyed in Fridays powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, northern Japan, Sunday, March 13, 2011.
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A woman crosses over a tsunami-hit railway track of the Japan Railway Ofunato line in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 21, 2011, after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
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Police lead rescue teams in the search for survivors amongst the damaged buildings and tsunami debris in Rikuzentakada, Iwate prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011. Workers battled to prevent a nuclear meltdown after a second blast rocked an atomic plant north of Tokyo, as helicopters and convoys of army trucks headed toward areas worst-hit by Japans strongest earthquake.
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A woman reacts at the news of her relatives death in an evacuation shelter for survivors of Fridays earthquake and tsunami Tuesday, March 15, 2011, in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
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Shoppers mob a supermarket for salt purchase in Lanzhou in northwest Chinas Gansu province Thursday, March 17, 2011. Residents in a few Chinese cities have gone on a buying spree of iodized salt in the belief that it would ward off radiation pollution as a result of the troubled nuclear reactors in Japan following an earthquake.
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Soldiers of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force search though the rubble at an earthquake and tsunami-hit area in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Thursday, March 17, 2011.
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A statue of Hotei Buddha sits in the debris in the tsunami-destroyed town of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan Friday, April 1, 2011.
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A pocket radiation detector shows 2.9 micro-sieverts per hour at an evacuation center in Koriyama for people living around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant Tuesday afternoon, March 15, in Fukushima Prefecture. Dangerous levels of radiation leaking from the crippled nuclear plant forced Japan to order 140,000 people to seal themselves indoors Tuesday after an explosion and a fire dramatically escalated the crisis spawned by a deadly tsunami.
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Firefighters search for missing people in Minamisanriku, northern Japan, Wednesday, March 16, 2011, after Fridays earthquake and tsunami.
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Officials wearing clothing to protect against radiation work in a center to scan residents who have been within 20 kilometers of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant damaged by Fridays earthquake Tuesday, March 15, 2011, in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
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A patient in a wheelchair is helped by attendants as they evacuate from a tsunami-affected hospital at Otsuchi, northeastern Japan, on Sunday March 13, 2011, two days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami hit the the countrys northeastern coast.
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A woman walks around the devastated area where her home used to be in Ofunato, northern Japan, Wednesday, March 16, 2011, after Fridays powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit Japans east coast.
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A survivor of the tsunami that swept through his village of Saito, in northeastern Japan, retells the story to a rescue team that arrived to search the area Monday, March 14, 2011. Rescue workers used chain saws and hand picks Monday to dig out bodies in Japans devastated coastal towns, as Asias richest nation faced a mounting humanitarian, nuclear and economic crisis in the aftermath of a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed thousands.
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Katsuo Maiya, 73, cries in front of the rubble where his sister in rows house stood in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan, Thursday, March 17, 2011. Maiyas sister in row and her husband were killed in Fridays earthquake and tsunami.
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A Buddhist monk Sokan Obara, 28, from Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, prays for the victims in the debris in the area devastated by the March 11 tsunami in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Thursday, April 7, 2011.
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Local residents light a candle at a park during a memorial event marking six months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Iwanuma city, Miyagi prefecture, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. As the world commemorates the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, Sunday is doubly significant for Japan. It marks exactly six months since the disasters.
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Two residents exchange words as they are reunited two weeks after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in a makeshift public bath set up outside a shelter by Japan Ground Self-Defense Force personnel in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Friday, March 25, 2011.
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A man takes a picture of the aftermath of a tsunami following Fridays massive earthquake in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan, Saturday, March 12, 2011.
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Houses swallowed by tsunami waves burn in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture (state) after Japan was struck by a strong earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, March 11, 2011.
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A patient in a wheelchair is helped by attendants as they evacuate from a tsunami-affected hospital at Otsuchi, northeastern Japan, on Sunday March 13, 2011, two days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami hit the the countrys northeastern coast.
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A baby is checked for radiation exposure level in Nihonmatsu in Fukushima prefecture (state) Tuesday, March 15, 2011 following a third explosion at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power complex Tuesday, March 15, 2011.
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A man visits the Cat Shrine, which enshrined cats on Tashirojima island, also known as Cats island, off Ishinomaki city, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Friday, March 9, 2012, two day before the anniversary of the disaster. The tsunami-hit isolated island, well known for more than 80 stray cats that local residents said survived the disaster, are on the way to the recovery using the cats as tourist resources.
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A Buddhist monk chants sutras as he walks through a neighborhood destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Friday, March 9, 2012, two days before the one-year anniversary of the disaster.
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Flowers and water are offered on a makeshift altar in a vacant land next to a damaged building in a neighborhood destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Friday, March 9, 2012, two days before the one-year anniversary of the disaster.
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A postman looks back on a motorbike in a neighborhood destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Friday, March 9, 2012, two days before the one-year anniversary of the disaster.
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A guard walks past piled debris of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Friday, March 9, 2012, two days before the one-year anniversary of the disaster.
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A replica of the Statue of Liberty that was damaged by the March 11 tsunami stands in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Friday, March 9, 2012, two days before the one-year anniversary of the disaster. Although most of buildings in the neighborhood were destroyed by the tsunami, the 9-meter (30 feet)-tall statue, built in 2010 as an tourist attraction, has survived and kept standing.
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A replica of the Statue of Liberty that was damaged by the March 11 tsunami stands in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Friday, March 9, 2012, two days before the one-year anniversary of the disaster. Although the most of buildings in the neighborhood were destroyed by the tsunami, the 9-meter (30 feet)-tall statue, built in 2010 as an tourist attraction, has survived and kept standing.
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