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Friday, October 25, 2013
Broken lives of Fukushima
In 2011 a massive earthquake and tsunami wrecked the Fukushima nuclear plant, resulting in a meltdown that became the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years. About 160,000 people living near the plant were ordered to move out and the government established a 20-km compulsory evacuation zone. The operator of the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co, is struggling to contain contaminated water at the site 240 km north of Tokyo. There have been multiple leaks and glitches over the last two and a half years. Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj returned to this abandoned area last month and captured these haunting images.( 25 photos total)
A small monument to victims is seen in front of an abandoned house at the tsunami destroyed coastal area of the evacuated town of Namie in Fukushima prefecture, some 6 km (4 miles) from the crippled Daiichi power plant, Sept. 22. Namie's more than 20,000 former residents can visit their homes once a month with special permissions but are not allowed to stay overnight inside the exclusion zone. A total of 160,000 people were ordered to leave their homes around Daiichi plant after the government announced the evacuation following the nuclear disaster in March 2011. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
A small monument to victims is seen in front of an abandoned house at the tsunami destroyed coastal area of the evacuated town of Namie in Fukushima prefecture, some 6 km (4 miles) from the crippled Daiichi power plant, Sept. 22. Namie's more than 20,000 former residents can visit their homes once a month with special permissions but are not allowed to stay overnight inside the exclusion zone. A total of 160,000 people were ordered to leave their homes around Daiichi plant after the government announced the evacuation following the nuclear disaster in March 2011. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Japan remembers, rebuilds one year after tsunami
Mourning the loss of almost 20,000 people gripped Japan yesterday on the anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. While the nation has made enormous strides recovering from the triple disaster, yesterday was was a time for remembrance. But the country is rebuilding even as it still suffers the loss of lives and the economic effects of an estimated $210 billion price tag - the costliest natural disaster in human history. Gathered here are images from memorial services, the rebuilding efforts, and of people forging ahead with altered lives a year on from the catastrophe.
Families release a paper lantern in memory of the victims of last year's earthquake and tsunami, on March 11, 2012 in Natori, Japan. (Daniel Berehulak /Getty Images)
Keiko Suzuki prays at the site where her home used to stand on March 11, 2012 in Rikuzentakata, Japan. Her uncle Kazuyoshi Sugawara who lived across the street was killed when his home was swept away by the tsunami last year. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
Mihaya Sato, 15, cries with friends after the first graduation ceremony since last year's disaster at the Shizukawa Junior High School on March 10, 2012 in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. (Daniel Berehulak /Getty Images)
Tomoe Kimura (right), an evacuee of Okuma town, holds a bouquet with another evacuee as they walk towards a mourning event for those killed by the disaster during a temporary visit to the nuclear exclusion zone in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture on March 11, 2012. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
People look at candles at a park in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture on March 11, 2012. Some 3,000 candles with messages written mainly by children lit the park to commemorate the first anniversary of the disaster. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
Wakana Kumagai, 7, holds her illustration of her father, who was killed by the tsunami, herself and her mother in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture March 11, 2012. Her father Kazuyuki called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11, 2011 earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari elementary school which was serving as a shelter. He was found near the shelter four days after the tsunami, Yoshiko said. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
Tetsuya Sato and his wife Akemi, whose relatives went missing in the tsunami, offer prayers for the victims at Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2012. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Buddhist monks offer prayers for victims of the disaster at Kitaizumi beach in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture on March 10, 2012. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
A couple pray where their home was before the disaster in Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2012. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)
Wakana Kumagai (see picture number 7) visits the spot where her house used to stand in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2012. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
People join hands facing the sea to mourn victims of the disaster in Minamisanriku town, Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2012. (Kyodo/Reuters)
Hikari Oyama, 8, plays with bubbles after she and her grandmother payed their respects at the memorial to victims of the last year's tsunami at the Okawa Elementary School, where 74 children were killed and 4 are still missing, on March 11, 2012 near Ishinomaki, Japan. "I thought bubble suits better for children rather than incense sticks, so that is why I play with bubble here. And it always makes people laugh and relax," Oyama's grandmother said. (Daniel Berehulak /Getty Images)
People hang paper cranes designed as prayers for the the souls of victims of the disaster in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture on March 10, 2012. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)
A woman looks at paper lanterns created at a memorial for the victims of the disaster in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture on March 10, 2012. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
A woman attends a ceremony in an area damaged during the disaster in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture on March 11, 2012. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
Paper lanterns, lit to mourn the disaster victims, are released into the sea in Yamada town, Iwate Prefecture on March 10, 2012. (Kyodo/Reuters)
Beams of lights, marking the first anniversary of the disaster, illuminate the sky above a destroyed area in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2012. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
A single pine tree that was left standing after the tsunami last year which swept away an entire forest, stands on March 10, 2012 in Rikuzentakata, Japan. The effected areas have been inundated with families and the limited amount of hotels in the area are at capacity with the world's media arriving to take part in ceremonies. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
Mai Otomo, 17, whose father was killed by the tsunami, lays a flower bouquet on the Arahama beach and offers prayers for the victims in Sendai city in Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2012. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Koshi Kikuta, a sake brewer of Kakuboshi Co, a sake maker since 1902, mixes malted rice during a new sake brewing process in Kesennuma, which was affected by the disaster in Miyagi prefecture on February 21, 2012. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
Employees cerebrate after restarting a paper machine at the Nippon Paper Industries Co. Ishinomaki Mill in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, on March 9, 2012. The company restarted the main paper machine which was damaged by the tsunami. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg)
A samba dancer walks carefully in the snow after performing at the opening of a temporary shopping complex at the Shizugawa district in Minamisanriku town north of Sendai on February 25, 2012. Small shops that were destroyed in the disaster resumed their businesses in prefabricated buildings. To survive, towns such as Yamada, Miyako or Minamisanriku need local people, who are increasingly drifting away to the cities, to hang on. But they also need to revamp industries - fishing and farming - and bring and retain longer-term investment and jobs. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
Tokio Ito welds on the first two fishing ships to be built since last year's tsunami destroyed the Kidoura ship building yard, on March 8, 2012 in Kesennuma, Japan. Numerous fishing towns had their equipment, factories, boats and livelihoods washed away. As a result large numbers of fisherman have turned to alternative industries, including laboring to clean the mountains of rubble left behind the tsunami, but most fight the uphill battle of rebuilding from scratch. (Daniel Berehulak /Getty Images)
A Kanto Auto Works Ltd. employee inspects an engine for a Toyota Aqua hybrid vehicle on the production line of the company's Iwate Plant in Kanegasaki Town, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on March 9, 2012. Toyota now makes more cars in the Tohoku area than it did before the disaster, leading a regional recovery by electrical component suppliers and makers of cars and chips. (Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg)
Tsuyako Kumagai, a survivor of the tsunami, touches a therapeutic robot baby seal called 'Paro' in temporary housing in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture on February 11, 2012. The seal robots have been made available to people living in temporary houses erected in a baseball stadium in the port town of Kesennuma, an area badly hit by the tsunami. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)
Photographer Kenichi Funada takes a portrait of Misako Yokota as part of the 3.11 Portrait Project at the Midorigaoka temporary shelter in Koriyama, Fukushima on December 17, 2011. The 3.11 Portrait Project, with the help of hair and makeup artists and other volunteers, takes portraits of earthquake survivors in Tohoku, many of whom lost all of their family pictures in the disaster. The portraits are then sent to schoolchildren from non-disaster areas, who frame the portraits and send them back to the survivors along with personal messages of support. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
Tokie Sakamoto reacts as she flips through an album of her family photographs, which were washed away by the tsunami, after receiving them from volunteer in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on February 20, 2012. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
A man looks for his photographs at a collection center for items found in the rubble of an area devastated by the disaster in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture on March 9, 2012. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
Machines work to sort and clear massive piles of scrap metal and debris on March 9, 2012 in Rikuzentakata, Japan. The Japanese government faces an uphill battle with the need to dispose of rubble as it works to rebuild economies and livelihoods. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
A bus is removed from a roof in Ogatsu district in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture on March 10, 2012. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)
Police officers search for bodies in an area damaged by the disaster in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture on March 9, 2012. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
Tei Eiki cries after paying her respects to the victims of the disaster in front of the ruined Minamisanriku Disaster Emergency Center during a bus tour of the devastated areas on March 5, 2012 in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
Demonstrators denounce nuclear power plants in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture on March 11, 2012. Some 16,000 people took part in the rally. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
A worker prepares to exit the emergency operation center at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan on February 20, 2012. (ssei Kato/Pool via Bloomberg)
A temporary worker for the Fukushima prefectural government puts beans inside a radiation measuring instrument at the Fukushima municipal office Azuma branch in Fukushima, Japan on March 9, 2012. Fukushima city started measuring radiation in food items brought in by residents. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
Reina Endo, 7, is screened for radiation during a whole-body radiation check at the Minamisoma City General Hospital just outside the nuclear evacuation zone on March 9, 2012 in Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Radiation is still being emitted from the shuttered nuclear plant. Over 20,000 people are registered on waiting lists to get their radiation levels measured. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)#
Saiko Yokozeki holds a a Geiger counter with her children at a playground near her home in Tokyo on March 3, 2012. Becquerels and sieverts are part of everyday vocabulary, Geiger counters are household items in parts of the country, and saving electricity has become a year-round activity as the myth of clean and safe nuclear energy is dead. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)#
A child takes cover underneath his desk during a disaster drill named "Shakeout Tokyo" at Izumi elementary school in Tokyo on March 9, 2012. Tokyo's Chiyoda ward residents, commuters, office workers and school children held a mass disaster drill in preparation for the next big earthquake. (Issei Kato/Reuters)#
Takuro Shimamura (left) and Syogo Kashiwa, from the baseball club at Takata High School take a training run through the area damaged by the tsunami in Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on February 14, 2012. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg)#
Hiromi Sato gave birth to her son Haruse at the Ishinomaki Red Cross hospital on March 11, 2011, the day of the disaster. In a fortunate twist of fate, her husband Kenji Sato took time off from work to see his third child born at a hospital in the nearby port city. A year on, the Satos are planning a quiet birthday with some cake and ice cream for the child who, his grandmother Kazuko insists, "was born to save us". (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)#
Families release a paper lantern in memory of the victims of last year's earthquake and tsunami, on March 11, 2012 in Natori, Japan. (Daniel Berehulak /Getty Images)
Keiko Suzuki prays at the site where her home used to stand on March 11, 2012 in Rikuzentakata, Japan. Her uncle Kazuyoshi Sugawara who lived across the street was killed when his home was swept away by the tsunami last year. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
Mihaya Sato, 15, cries with friends after the first graduation ceremony since last year's disaster at the Shizukawa Junior High School on March 10, 2012 in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. (Daniel Berehulak /Getty Images)
Tomoe Kimura (right), an evacuee of Okuma town, holds a bouquet with another evacuee as they walk towards a mourning event for those killed by the disaster during a temporary visit to the nuclear exclusion zone in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture on March 11, 2012. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
People look at candles at a park in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture on March 11, 2012. Some 3,000 candles with messages written mainly by children lit the park to commemorate the first anniversary of the disaster. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
Wakana Kumagai, 7, holds her illustration of her father, who was killed by the tsunami, herself and her mother in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture March 11, 2012. Her father Kazuyuki called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11, 2011 earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari elementary school which was serving as a shelter. He was found near the shelter four days after the tsunami, Yoshiko said. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
Tetsuya Sato and his wife Akemi, whose relatives went missing in the tsunami, offer prayers for the victims at Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2012. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Buddhist monks offer prayers for victims of the disaster at Kitaizumi beach in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture on March 10, 2012. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
A couple pray where their home was before the disaster in Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2012. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)
Wakana Kumagai (see picture number 7) visits the spot where her house used to stand in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2012. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
People join hands facing the sea to mourn victims of the disaster in Minamisanriku town, Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2012. (Kyodo/Reuters)
Hikari Oyama, 8, plays with bubbles after she and her grandmother payed their respects at the memorial to victims of the last year's tsunami at the Okawa Elementary School, where 74 children were killed and 4 are still missing, on March 11, 2012 near Ishinomaki, Japan. "I thought bubble suits better for children rather than incense sticks, so that is why I play with bubble here. And it always makes people laugh and relax," Oyama's grandmother said. (Daniel Berehulak /Getty Images)
People hang paper cranes designed as prayers for the the souls of victims of the disaster in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture on March 10, 2012. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)
A woman looks at paper lanterns created at a memorial for the victims of the disaster in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture on March 10, 2012. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
A woman attends a ceremony in an area damaged during the disaster in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture on March 11, 2012. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
Paper lanterns, lit to mourn the disaster victims, are released into the sea in Yamada town, Iwate Prefecture on March 10, 2012. (Kyodo/Reuters)
Beams of lights, marking the first anniversary of the disaster, illuminate the sky above a destroyed area in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2012. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
A single pine tree that was left standing after the tsunami last year which swept away an entire forest, stands on March 10, 2012 in Rikuzentakata, Japan. The effected areas have been inundated with families and the limited amount of hotels in the area are at capacity with the world's media arriving to take part in ceremonies. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
Mai Otomo, 17, whose father was killed by the tsunami, lays a flower bouquet on the Arahama beach and offers prayers for the victims in Sendai city in Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2012. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Koshi Kikuta, a sake brewer of Kakuboshi Co, a sake maker since 1902, mixes malted rice during a new sake brewing process in Kesennuma, which was affected by the disaster in Miyagi prefecture on February 21, 2012. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
Employees cerebrate after restarting a paper machine at the Nippon Paper Industries Co. Ishinomaki Mill in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, on March 9, 2012. The company restarted the main paper machine which was damaged by the tsunami. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg)
A samba dancer walks carefully in the snow after performing at the opening of a temporary shopping complex at the Shizugawa district in Minamisanriku town north of Sendai on February 25, 2012. Small shops that were destroyed in the disaster resumed their businesses in prefabricated buildings. To survive, towns such as Yamada, Miyako or Minamisanriku need local people, who are increasingly drifting away to the cities, to hang on. But they also need to revamp industries - fishing and farming - and bring and retain longer-term investment and jobs. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
Tokio Ito welds on the first two fishing ships to be built since last year's tsunami destroyed the Kidoura ship building yard, on March 8, 2012 in Kesennuma, Japan. Numerous fishing towns had their equipment, factories, boats and livelihoods washed away. As a result large numbers of fisherman have turned to alternative industries, including laboring to clean the mountains of rubble left behind the tsunami, but most fight the uphill battle of rebuilding from scratch. (Daniel Berehulak /Getty Images)
A Kanto Auto Works Ltd. employee inspects an engine for a Toyota Aqua hybrid vehicle on the production line of the company's Iwate Plant in Kanegasaki Town, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on March 9, 2012. Toyota now makes more cars in the Tohoku area than it did before the disaster, leading a regional recovery by electrical component suppliers and makers of cars and chips. (Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg)
Tsuyako Kumagai, a survivor of the tsunami, touches a therapeutic robot baby seal called 'Paro' in temporary housing in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture on February 11, 2012. The seal robots have been made available to people living in temporary houses erected in a baseball stadium in the port town of Kesennuma, an area badly hit by the tsunami. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)
Photographer Kenichi Funada takes a portrait of Misako Yokota as part of the 3.11 Portrait Project at the Midorigaoka temporary shelter in Koriyama, Fukushima on December 17, 2011. The 3.11 Portrait Project, with the help of hair and makeup artists and other volunteers, takes portraits of earthquake survivors in Tohoku, many of whom lost all of their family pictures in the disaster. The portraits are then sent to schoolchildren from non-disaster areas, who frame the portraits and send them back to the survivors along with personal messages of support. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
Tokie Sakamoto reacts as she flips through an album of her family photographs, which were washed away by the tsunami, after receiving them from volunteer in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on February 20, 2012. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
A man looks for his photographs at a collection center for items found in the rubble of an area devastated by the disaster in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture on March 9, 2012. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
Machines work to sort and clear massive piles of scrap metal and debris on March 9, 2012 in Rikuzentakata, Japan. The Japanese government faces an uphill battle with the need to dispose of rubble as it works to rebuild economies and livelihoods. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
A bus is removed from a roof in Ogatsu district in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture on March 10, 2012. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)
Police officers search for bodies in an area damaged by the disaster in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture on March 9, 2012. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
Tei Eiki cries after paying her respects to the victims of the disaster in front of the ruined Minamisanriku Disaster Emergency Center during a bus tour of the devastated areas on March 5, 2012 in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
Demonstrators denounce nuclear power plants in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture on March 11, 2012. Some 16,000 people took part in the rally. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
A worker prepares to exit the emergency operation center at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan on February 20, 2012. (ssei Kato/Pool via Bloomberg)
A temporary worker for the Fukushima prefectural government puts beans inside a radiation measuring instrument at the Fukushima municipal office Azuma branch in Fukushima, Japan on March 9, 2012. Fukushima city started measuring radiation in food items brought in by residents. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
Reina Endo, 7, is screened for radiation during a whole-body radiation check at the Minamisoma City General Hospital just outside the nuclear evacuation zone on March 9, 2012 in Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Radiation is still being emitted from the shuttered nuclear plant. Over 20,000 people are registered on waiting lists to get their radiation levels measured. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)#
Saiko Yokozeki holds a a Geiger counter with her children at a playground near her home in Tokyo on March 3, 2012. Becquerels and sieverts are part of everyday vocabulary, Geiger counters are household items in parts of the country, and saving electricity has become a year-round activity as the myth of clean and safe nuclear energy is dead. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)#
A child takes cover underneath his desk during a disaster drill named "Shakeout Tokyo" at Izumi elementary school in Tokyo on March 9, 2012. Tokyo's Chiyoda ward residents, commuters, office workers and school children held a mass disaster drill in preparation for the next big earthquake. (Issei Kato/Reuters)#
Takuro Shimamura (left) and Syogo Kashiwa, from the baseball club at Takata High School take a training run through the area damaged by the tsunami in Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on February 14, 2012. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg)#
Hiromi Sato gave birth to her son Haruse at the Ishinomaki Red Cross hospital on March 11, 2011, the day of the disaster. In a fortunate twist of fate, her husband Kenji Sato took time off from work to see his third child born at a hospital in the nearby port city. A year on, the Satos are planning a quiet birthday with some cake and ice cream for the child who, his grandmother Kazuko insists, "was born to save us". (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)#
Friday, March 23, 2012
Japan tsunami pictures: before and after
In this first of three Big Picture posts on the anniversary of the Japan earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster, we have a series of paired "then and now" pictures, with the first image taken recently paired with a picture from the same vantage point taken during or in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. CLICK ON IMAGES 2 THROUGH 27 TO SEE THE SAME AREA ONE YEAR AGO. This effect requires javascript to be enabled. Outside of Japan's nuclear exclusion zone the country has made a remarkable cleanup of the areas ravaged by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. But a quasi-normality reigns, with some formerly devastated areas now orderly, yet not as they were before the tragedy, while other areas bear heavy signs of damage. Several photographers recently painstakingly recreated scenes photographed during the original events. AFP's Toru Yamanaka said the task was very difficult, with many of the visual clues wiped away. Yamanaka said he had to ask local residents where they thought the original photos were taken. In Ishinomaki, he walked into the city hall and showed people a photograph of a piece of land with many stones scattered on it. "All the city officials from one section came out and tried to help me. They stared at the picture all together but still couldn't figure it out. One young woman, also working at the city hall, then shouted: 'I got it!' She pointed out a tiny building in the background that was under construction, and said, 'I know the building.'" The last three images, as well as the first image here, are of Yuko Sugimoto and her son, Raito. Photographed wrapped in a blanket looking for her son, the moment became an iconic image of the disaster. Thankfully, their story has a happy ending, as the pair were safely reunited.
This combination photograph shows Yuko Sugimoto wrapped with a blanket standing in front of debris looking for her son in the tsunami-hit town of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture on March 13, 2011 and the same housewife standing with her five-year-old son Raito at the same place on January 27, 2012. March 11, 2012 will mark the first anniversary of the massive tsunami that pummelled Japan, claiming more than 19,000 lives. (Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP) (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of photographs shows the same location on a street in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on two different dates, March 11, 2011 and February 17, 2012. The first photograph shows the area today, and the second shows a tsunami wave crashing into the street after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Miyako City Office/Handout/Reuters) and (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
This pair of photographs shows the same location in a fishing port in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on March 11, 2011 and February 17, 2012. The second photograph shows a wave crashing into the port during the tsunami. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Miyako City Office/Handout/Reuters) and (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
This pair of photographs shows the same location in a fishing port in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on two different dates, March 11, 2011 and February 16, 2012. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Miyako City Office/Handout/Reuters) and (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
This pair of photographs shows the same location on a street in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on two different dates, March 11, 2011 and February 17, 2012. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Toshiro Nagahora/Reuters) and (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
This pair of photographs shows the same location on a street in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on two different dates, March 11, 2011 and February 17, 2012. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Miyako City Office/Handout/Reuters) and (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
This pair of photographs shows the same location on a street in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on two different dates, March 11, 2011 and February 17, 2012. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Miyako City Office/Handout/Reuters) and (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
This pair of pictures shows the area where the ship Asia Symphony ran aground after the March 11 tsunami in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on March 18, 2011 and January 16, 2012. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures taken from a hilltop on March 16, 2011 and on January 14, 2012 shows the city of Kesennuma, Japan. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture, Japan on January 13, 2012 and people evacuating with small boats down the same road flooded by the tsunami on March 12, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows a street in Ishonomaki, Miyagi prefecture, Japan on January 13, 2012 and a boat washed by the tsunami onto the same street on March 15, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows a bridge in the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture, Japan as it looked on January 13, 2012 and as it looked covered with debris from the tsunami on March 15, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows a tourist home in Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture, Japan on January 16, 2012 and the same building with a sightseeing boat washed onto it on April 16, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows train tracks in Tagajo, Miyagi prefecture, Japan on January 12, 2012 and the same tracks damaged and littered with cars after the tsunami on March 13, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on January 15, 2012 and the same view three days after the tsunami on March 14, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on January 15, 2012 and the same view three days after the tsunami on March 14, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, Japan on January 15, 2012 and on March 22, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
The tsunami-devastated Sendai airport in Miyagi prefecture, is seen in these images taken March 11, 2011 and March 2, 2012. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
A natural gas storage tank facility at the Cosmo oil refinery in Ichihara, Chiba prefecture, Japan under reconstruction on March 7, 2011 and burning during the disaster on March 11, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
The tsunami and earthquake-hit Iwaki city in Fukushima prefecture is seen in these images taken March 7, 2012 and March 11, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
The Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture is seen in these aerial images taken on February 26, 2012, and before the disaster in October, 2008. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
The tsunami-devastated Kesennuma area in Miyagi prefecture is seen in these images taken March 1, 2012 and March 18, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
A tsunami-devastated area in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture in these aerial images taken March 1, 2012 and March 12, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
The tsunami-devastated Higashimatsushima city in Miyagi prefecture is seen in these images taken March 3, 2012 and March 12, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
The tsunami-devastated Minamisanriku town in Miyagi prefecture is seen in these images taken March March 3, 2012 and March 13, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
A collection center for personal items found in the rubble of an area devastated by the earthquake and tsunami in Natori, Miyagi prefecture is seen in these images taken March 5, 2012 and on April 9, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
The tsunami-devastated Kesennuma area in Miyagi prefecture is seen in these images taken March 1, 2012 and March 13, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
Yuko Sugimoto listens as her son Raito talks about his friend who passed away during a visit to the Ishinomaki Mizuho No.2 kindergarten in Ishinomaki, Japan on February 22, 2012. Sugimoto was pictured last year (see photo number one), wrapped in a blanket in front of a pile of debris as she looked for her son Raito who was missing. He had found refuge from the tsunami on the roof of the kindergarten. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
Children and teachers from Ishinomaki Mizuho No.2 kindergarten take shelter on the roof of their school during the tsunami in this photo taken by head teacher Hiroaki Tsuda with his mobile phone on March 11, 2011. Yuko Sugimoto's son Raito was among the children that survived the disaster as they scrambled onto the rooftop and stayed through the night until the Coast Guard rescued them the following morning. (Ishinomaki Mizuho Kindergarten head Hiroaki Tsuda/Reuters/Handout)
Yuko Sugimoto and her son Raito pray on February 22, 2012 at the site where their pet dog was buried in the yard of their house in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan after the 3011 earthquake and tsunami. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
This combination photograph shows Yuko Sugimoto wrapped with a blanket standing in front of debris looking for her son in the tsunami-hit town of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture on March 13, 2011 and the same housewife standing with her five-year-old son Raito at the same place on January 27, 2012. March 11, 2012 will mark the first anniversary of the massive tsunami that pummelled Japan, claiming more than 19,000 lives. (Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP) (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of photographs shows the same location on a street in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on two different dates, March 11, 2011 and February 17, 2012. The first photograph shows the area today, and the second shows a tsunami wave crashing into the street after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Miyako City Office/Handout/Reuters) and (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
This pair of photographs shows the same location in a fishing port in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on March 11, 2011 and February 17, 2012. The second photograph shows a wave crashing into the port during the tsunami. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Miyako City Office/Handout/Reuters) and (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
This pair of photographs shows the same location in a fishing port in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on two different dates, March 11, 2011 and February 16, 2012. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Miyako City Office/Handout/Reuters) and (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
This pair of photographs shows the same location on a street in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on two different dates, March 11, 2011 and February 17, 2012. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Toshiro Nagahora/Reuters) and (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
This pair of photographs shows the same location on a street in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on two different dates, March 11, 2011 and February 17, 2012. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Miyako City Office/Handout/Reuters) and (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
This pair of photographs shows the same location on a street in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on two different dates, March 11, 2011 and February 17, 2012. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Miyako City Office/Handout/Reuters) and (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
This pair of pictures shows the area where the ship Asia Symphony ran aground after the March 11 tsunami in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan on March 18, 2011 and January 16, 2012. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures taken from a hilltop on March 16, 2011 and on January 14, 2012 shows the city of Kesennuma, Japan. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture, Japan on January 13, 2012 and people evacuating with small boats down the same road flooded by the tsunami on March 12, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows a street in Ishonomaki, Miyagi prefecture, Japan on January 13, 2012 and a boat washed by the tsunami onto the same street on March 15, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows a bridge in the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture, Japan as it looked on January 13, 2012 and as it looked covered with debris from the tsunami on March 15, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows a tourist home in Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture, Japan on January 16, 2012 and the same building with a sightseeing boat washed onto it on April 16, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows train tracks in Tagajo, Miyagi prefecture, Japan on January 12, 2012 and the same tracks damaged and littered with cars after the tsunami on March 13, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on January 15, 2012 and the same view three days after the tsunami on March 14, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on January 15, 2012 and the same view three days after the tsunami on March 14, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
This pair of pictures shows Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, Japan on January 15, 2012 and on March 22, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images) and (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images)
The tsunami-devastated Sendai airport in Miyagi prefecture, is seen in these images taken March 11, 2011 and March 2, 2012. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
A natural gas storage tank facility at the Cosmo oil refinery in Ichihara, Chiba prefecture, Japan under reconstruction on March 7, 2011 and burning during the disaster on March 11, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
The tsunami and earthquake-hit Iwaki city in Fukushima prefecture is seen in these images taken March 7, 2012 and March 11, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
The Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture is seen in these aerial images taken on February 26, 2012, and before the disaster in October, 2008. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
The tsunami-devastated Kesennuma area in Miyagi prefecture is seen in these images taken March 1, 2012 and March 18, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
A tsunami-devastated area in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture in these aerial images taken March 1, 2012 and March 12, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
The tsunami-devastated Higashimatsushima city in Miyagi prefecture is seen in these images taken March 3, 2012 and March 12, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
The tsunami-devastated Minamisanriku town in Miyagi prefecture is seen in these images taken March March 3, 2012 and March 13, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
A collection center for personal items found in the rubble of an area devastated by the earthquake and tsunami in Natori, Miyagi prefecture is seen in these images taken March 5, 2012 and on April 9, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
The tsunami-devastated Kesennuma area in Miyagi prefecture is seen in these images taken March 1, 2012 and March 13, 2011. [ Click image to see the area one year ago ] (Reuters/Kyodo)
Yuko Sugimoto listens as her son Raito talks about his friend who passed away during a visit to the Ishinomaki Mizuho No.2 kindergarten in Ishinomaki, Japan on February 22, 2012. Sugimoto was pictured last year (see photo number one), wrapped in a blanket in front of a pile of debris as she looked for her son Raito who was missing. He had found refuge from the tsunami on the roof of the kindergarten. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
Children and teachers from Ishinomaki Mizuho No.2 kindergarten take shelter on the roof of their school during the tsunami in this photo taken by head teacher Hiroaki Tsuda with his mobile phone on March 11, 2011. Yuko Sugimoto's son Raito was among the children that survived the disaster as they scrambled onto the rooftop and stayed through the night until the Coast Guard rescued them the following morning. (Ishinomaki Mizuho Kindergarten head Hiroaki Tsuda/Reuters/Handout)
Yuko Sugimoto and her son Raito pray on February 22, 2012 at the site where their pet dog was buried in the yard of their house in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan after the 3011 earthquake and tsunami. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
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