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People watched from an electronics shop as Emperor Akihito of
Japan, in an unprecedented
television address to the nation, said on Wednesday that he was "deeply
worried" about the ongoing nuclear crisis. March 16, 2011
連絡のとれない兄の自宅跡を訪ね張り紙をした山崎よう子さん＝１６日午前１０時０８分、岩手県大船渡市（頼光和弘 撮影） 警察庁のまとめでは午前９時半現在、行方不明者は岩手や福島など６県で７８４５人に上っている。
Local residents move home were from a tsunami damaged house in
the city of Kesennuma in Miyagi prefecture on March 16, 2011.
Nakonosawa, Japan — A notice posted at the junior high school
points out three missing women. 2011/02/16 20:07 
Kesennuma in Miyagi prefecture on March 16, 2011. 
Japan's Self-Defense Forces's helicopter scoops water
off Japan's northeast coast on its way to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power
plant in Okumamachi Thursday morning, March 17, 2011. Helicopters are dumping
water on a stricken reactor in northeastern Japan to cool overheated fuel rods
inside the core. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Kenji Shimizu) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY
CREDIT
A gas station worker talks to fuel-seeking drivers who stayed
overnight in front of the station despite a sold-out notice in Ichinoseki,
northern Japan early Thursday, March 17.
Japan's Self-Defense Force's hovercraft type landing
craft lands with supplies in Ishinomaki, northern Japan Thursday, March 17, 2011
following Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun,
Kenji Shimizu) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
Rail tracks bent by Friday's earthquake and tsunami are
seen at Utazu station in Minamisanriku, northern Japan, Thursday, March 17,
2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA,
HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE
Survivors react after
collecting their belongings at their destroyed house in a village hit by an
earthquake and tsunami in Otsuchi, northeast Japan on March
17.
Tetsuko Ito, 69, left, cries as she reunites her friend
Kyoko Suzuki, 75, at a makeshift shelter in Hirota, Iwate Prefecture, northern
Japan, Friday, March 18, 2011, just one week after the earthquake and resulting
tsunami. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
In this photo provided by East Japan Railway via Kyodo
News, workers inspecting tilted electric poles on tracks of Tohoku Shinkansen
bullet train near Kitakami station in Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan, Friday,
March 18, 2011, a week after an earthquake and resulting tsunami. (AP Photo/East
Japan Railway via Kyodo News) ,
ISHINOMAKI, JAPAN - MARCH 18: Miyuki Komatsu walks back to her
home March 18, 2011 in Ishinomaki, Japan. Residents have begun returning to
their homes to begin the massive cleanup operation
A woman places her contact details onto a notice board at an
evacuation center in Natori near Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, Friday, March
18, 2011. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
 Akane Ho embraces her dog Mei at an evacuation center in
Natori near Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, Friday, March 18, 2011. Mei was
returned to her today, seven days after she went missing following the
earthquake triggered tsunami on March 11.
Akane Ho hugs her dog Mei at an evacuation center in
Natori near Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Friday, March 18, 2011. Mei was
returned to her today, seven days after she went missing following the
earthquake triggered tsunami on March 11. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
U.S. soldiers clear portions of the runway in assisting
relief efforts for quake and tsunami victims, Friday, March 18, 2011, at the
Jinmachi Air Base in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Wally
Santana)
Children who attended a graduation ceremony wave to
members of a U.S. search and rescue team from Los Angeles County as they leave
the Setamai school in Sumita, Japan, after finishing using it as their base to
conduct rescue missions from locally affected tsunami areas, Friday, March 18,
2011. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
These two combo photos show before (bottom) and after
(top) the March 11 earthquake and resulting tsunami hitting Rikuzentakata, Iwate
Prefecture, northern Japan. Bottom was taken in 1992, top was Friday, March 18,
2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) ,
A man sits in a chair amid the rubble in Kesennuma,
Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Friday, March 18, 2011, just one week
after the earthquake and resulting tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) , 
A small girl picks up her hat she found at her
elementary school where she visited for the first time since the massive quake,
at Ofunato, northeastern Japan, Friday, March 18, 2011, just one week after the
earthquake and resulting tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) ,
Passengers crowd a check-in area at Narita airport in
Narita, east of Tokyo, Friday, March 18, 2011. The airport was crowded with
evacuees and regular passengers Friday following advisories from foreign
governments recommending citizens leave the country, as the crisis at Japan's
Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in the northeast deepened. (AP Photo/Eugene
Hoshiko)
Narita Airport
A mother and her son observe a moment of silence in
front of the ruins of their house swept away by the March 11 tsunami in
Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Friday, March 18, 2011, a
week after a massive earthquake and resulting tsunami. (AP Photo/Yomiuri
Shimbun, Joko Tetsu)
Woman reacts after the body of her mother was found in
Onagawa, northern Japan Friday, March 18, 2011, one week after a massive
earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
Otsuchi
Quake survivor Kenji Sugawara hangs a portrait
of his wife, Yumiko, from his neck as he stands near where his residence once
was at Otsuchi, northeastern Japan, Friday, March 18, 2011, just one week after
the earthquake and resulting tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) ,
A woman walks along a railroad truck, passing tsunami-wrecked
train cars in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Friday, March 18,
2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) ,
Town is partially darken due to scheduled blackouts for
saving energy in Sango, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, Friday, March 18, 2011. Tokyo
and neighborhood prefectures were asked to conserve energy in the face of
rolling blackouts. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
Evacuees travel through a devastated area in
Kesennuma, northern Japan, Saturday, March 19, 2011, eight days after last
week's earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Kaname Muto)
A train car washed away by March 11 tsunami lies amid a
graveyard Saturday, March 19, 2011 in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. (AP
Photo/Kyodo News)
Shigemasa Kanno, 74, holds a photograph of his missing 68-year-old wife Sueko
Kanno, at the debris of his destroyed house in Rikuzentakata, Japan, March
19.
悲しみの遺体安置所
2011.03.19 産経 遺体安置所になっている県立総合運動公園グランディ・２１＝１９日午前８時２１分、宮城県宮城郡利府町（本社ヘリから、門井聡撮影）
Motorists line up outside a gas station in Fukushima
city, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, Saturday, March 19, 2011, as supply
of gasoline was interrupted after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami devastated
the area. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
OTSUCHI, JAPAN - MARCH 19: In this handout image
provided by the International Federation of Red Cross Japan, a member of the
Japanese Red Cross surveys a heavily damaged road March 19, 2011 in Otsuchi,
Iwate prefecture, Japan.
A Japanese man recovers his classic 1950s Harley
Davidson motorcycle, which was washed away with his home in the earthquake and
tsunami destroyed town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan Sunday,
March 20, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
通行不能になっていた国道45号の水尻橋に18日、自衛隊が設置した仮設の橋。救援物資の搬送がより幅広く可能になった ＝20日午後、宮城県南三陸町（松本健吾撮影）
A destroyed professional Canon SLR photo camera is
photographed in a house damaged by an earthquake and tsunami in Ofunato March
20, 2011. Picture taken March 20, 2011. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
津波で塩まみれになったデジタル１眼レフカメラ（ＡＰ）
March 20, 2011 aerial photo taken by a small unmanned
drone and released by AIR PHOTO SERVICE, the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear
power plant are seen in Okumamachi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. From
left: Unit 1, partially seen; Unit 2, Unit 3 and Unit 4.
Water tanks are seen at Kashima Antlers' club house on March 20,
2011 in Kashima, Ibaraki, Japan. 
A Type 74 main battle tank on a trailer truck leaves for the
Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex after the truck refueled at Camp Asaka of
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force in Tokyo Sunday, March 20, 2011. Two Type 74
tanks are prepared to clear the rubble at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in
northern Japan, deteriorated after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
In this Sunday, March 20, 2011 photo, a burned elementary school
sits in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami-destroyed city of Ishinomaki,
northern Japan.
The sign that reads "Am staying at the house of Tamura,
- Asano, Shinto priest" is left in the rubble of an earthquake and tsunami-hit
area in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, March 20, 2011. (AP
Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
A fish lies on top of a destroyed car in the earthquake and
tsunami leveled town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan Sunday,
March 20, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Hisao Sato and his wife Yoshiko offer a prayer on March 20, prior to Higan, a
Japanese Buddhist holiday to give prayer to the dead on the Spring Equinox, at
their family grave stone behind their home in Ishimaki which was destroyed by
tsunami waves.
Volunteers arrange food, water, medicine and blankets donated for evacuees from
Futaba, a city near the quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, at
the evacuees' new shelter near Tokyo, March 20.
March 20, 2011 in Rikuzentakata, Japan. 
A worker loads a cargo plane for Japan with medecines,
food, blankets, radioactivity mesuring instruments and others supplies at the
Marcel Dassault airport on March 21, 2011, in Deols near Chateauroux, central
France. France prepares to send aid to Japan following the earthquake, tsunami
and the nuclear crisis which hit the country.
An official updates a list of the dead outside a
temporary morgue at a bowling alley in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, Monday, March
21, 2011 as the death toll continues to rise following the March 11 earthquake
and tsunami that devastated the northeast coast of Japan. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
Workers repair the railway tracks damaged by the March 11
earthquake in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, today... march 21st
Ishinomaki on March 21, 2011.
A train car remains over a graveyard in Onagawa, northern Japan,
Monday, March 21, 2011, after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (AP
Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG,
JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE
Lunch is served to earthquake victims packed inside an
evacuation center where hundreds of homeless are staying March 21, 2011 in
Rikuzentakata, Japan
Vehicles washed away by the March 11 remain still
stranded on gravestones in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March
21, 2011. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Miho Takahashi) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY
CREDIT
Sumi Abe, 80, was helped by emergency workers after being
rescued along with her 16-year-old grandson in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on
Sunday, nine days after the earthquake. 2011年3月21日
Tokiko Takada, left, and her grandchild Mai search through the
rubble of their house at Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday,
March 21, 2011. (AP
A man sits on stone stops as he watches a recovery
operation near his shelter in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Monday,
March 21, 2011, after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami devastated the area.
(AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
Youngsters look out at tsunami damage from a hill where there is
a shelter set up in a school in Minamisanriku, Japan, Monday, March 21, 2011.
(AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Buses take residents on a tour through their devastated suburb
in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 21, 2011 following the March
11 earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
A bus takes residents on a tour through their
devastated suburb as rescue workers continue to search through the debris in
Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 21, 2011 following the March 11
earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
A woman takes photos from a bus taking residents on a
tour through their devastated suburb in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan,
Monday, March 21, 2011 following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (AP
Photo/Mark Baker)
Family members thank a Japanese soldier after taking a
bath set up inside a tent at the town of Yamada, northeastern Japan, Wednesday,
March 23, 2011, following the March 11 earthquake and resulting tsunami that
struck Japan's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Tetsuya
Kikumasa)
A dog sits outside a relief centre in Minamisanriku town in
Miyagi Prefecture March 22, 2011
In this March 22 photo, Manami Kon, using Japanese hiragana characters she just
learned, writes a letter for her mother who's still missing after the March 11
earthquake and tsunami at the devastated city of Miyako, northeastern Japan. The
4-year-old Manami wrote, "Dear Mommy. I hope you're alive. Are you okay?" It
took about an hour for her to finish it. Twenty days after the disaster that hit
Japan's northeastern coast, her parents and a sister were still unaccounted for.
In this March 22, 2011 photo, Manami Kon, 4, waits for her parents and younger
sister who are still missing after the March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami,
in Miyako, northern Japan 
17-year-old evacuee Shoko Igarashi hugs her dog, who will have to be looked
after by friends while Shoko goes into a shelter in Koriyama, 60km west of the
Fukushima nuclear power plant, on March 23.
Mourners gathered for a mass burial on Wednesday in the coastal
city of Higashi Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture. March 23, 2011 
In this Wednesday, March 23, 2011 photo, Tami Akanuma,
83, holds her Shih-tzu dog "Babu" at an evacuation center in Miyako, northern
Japan. When a massive earthquake struck on March 11, 2011, Akanuma was with her
dog at home located 200 meters (about 219 yards) away from a coast. Soon after
the lights went out, the dog started running around furiously. Then she prepared
to walk her dog, even though it's a bit early from their regular dog-walking
hours. During her preparation, tsunami alert was issued and she opened the door
of her house for evacuation, and the dog dashed out toward a hill, which was
different walkway from regular course. According to Akanuma, when she became
sluggish, the dog looked back on her and seemed it urged her to walk, and once
she caught up with her dog, it stroke out again. And finally Akanuma could
arrive at a shelter about 1 kilometer (0.62 mile) away from her home, just
before the tsunami engulfed the walkway they took. Babu was usually unwilling to
take a walk, so Akanuma believes that the dog might have predicted the tsunami.
Babu celebrated her 12th birthday on March 23. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun,
Tetsuya Kikumasa) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
In this photo taken Wednesday, March 23, 2011,
refugees' mobile phones are charged at a station set up outside a shelter in the
earthquake- and tsunami-destroyed town of Minamisanriku, northeastern Japan.
There are more than 1,000 living in the arena and more than 9,000 homeless
people from the town living in shelters around the Minamisanriku area. (AP
Photo/David Guttenfelder)
In this photo taken Wednesday, March 23, 2011, a
mud-covered wedding photo rests inside a box of photographs that Japanese
military collected and left on the side of a road while searching the area, in
Minamisanriku, northeastern Japan. Of the 17,666 people who once lived here,
over 300 have been confirmed dead and thousands more have disappeared - still
buried in the ruins or sucked out to sea as the mighty wall of water receded.
The sheer extent of the devastation wrought on March 11 raises serious
questions: Should the dozens of shattered communities along these shores be
rebuilt at all? Can they be, when up to half their inhabitants are gone and
survivors know it could happen again? (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) 
Gravestones collapsed at Jodoji Buddhist temple in
Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Wednesday, March 23, 2011
rescue operation at the port of Ayukawa in Ishinomaki, Miyagi
prefecture on March 23, 2011
These two combo photos, provided by NEXCO East on
Wednesday, March 23, 2011, show a road devastated by March 11 massive
earthquake, top, and the restored road in Naka, Ibaraki prefecture, northern
Japan. The highway company restored the 150-meter cave-in section of the highway
linking Tokyo and the quake-damaged Ibaraki prefecture in six days. The photos
were taken on March 11, 2011, top, and on March 17, 2011, bottom. (AP
Photo/NEXCO East)
A bus sits atop a building following the March 11
earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan,
Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Yasufumi Nagao) 
tsunami-destroyed town of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture,
northern Japan Wednesday, March 23, 2011.
Family members weep during a burial ceremony for the
March 11 tsunami victims in Higashimatsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan,
Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
In this photo taken Wednesday, March 23, 2011, men
operating a bicycle crank pump refuel cars at the site of a gas station in the
earthquake- and tsunami-destroyed town of Minamisanriku, northeastern Japan. Of
the 17,666 people who once lived here, over 300 have been confirmed dead and
thousands more have disappeared - still buried in the ruins or sucked out to sea
as the mighty wall of water receded. The sheer extent of the devastation wrought
on March 11 raises serious questions: Should the dozens of shattered communities
along these shores be rebuilt at all? Can they be, when up to half their
inhabitants are gone and survivors know it could happen again? (AP Photo/David
Guttenfelder) 
Relief supplies were stored at a community gym in
Minamisanriku.. March 23, 2011
In this photo taken Wednesday, March 23, 2011, Toshiko
Suda, 63, right, and her husband Michio Suda, 64, wait to load their few
remaining belongings into a truck at the site of their home and seaweed business
which was destroyed by the tsunami on March 11, in the town of Minamisanriku,
northeastern Japan. Many younger people moved away long ago, said Toshiko Suda,
who ran a business selling seaweed before the tsunami. "Now their parents may
follow." Suda's children live in the nearest big city, Sendai, parts of which
were also heavily damaged. She put her life into the business she started with
her husband. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
In this photo taken Thursday, March 24, 2011, refugees
gather to look for clothing at an aid station set up outside the Bayside Arena
shelter in the earthquake- and tsunami-destroyed town of Minamisanriku,
northeastern Japan. Of the 17,666 people who once lived here, over 300 have been
confirmed dead and thousands more have disappeared - still buried in the ruins
or sucked out to sea as the mighty wall of water receded. The sheer extent of
the devastation wrought on March 11 raises serious questions: Should the dozens
of shattered communities along these shores be rebuilt at all? Can they be, when
up to half their inhabitants are gone and survivors know it could happen again?
(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
A man breaks in tears near the rubble of a school in
the devastated city of Ishinomaki, northeastern Japan on Thursday March 24,
2011, after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that struck the countryÌs
northeast coast. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
In this photo taken Thursday, March 24, 2011, a refugee
sleeps inside his allowed floor space, separated from his neighbors by the walls
of a cardboard box, in a hallway at a shelter in the earthquake- and
tsunami-destroyed town of Minamisanriku, northeastern Japan. Of the 17,666
people who once lived here, over 300 have been confirmed dead and thousands more
have disappeared - still buried in the ruins or sucked out to sea as the mighty
wall of water receded. The sheer extent of the devastation wrought on March 11
raises serious questions: Should the dozens of shattered communities along these
shores be rebuilt at all? Can they be, when up to half their inhabitants are
gone and survivors know it could happen again? (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
In this photo taken Thursday, March 24, 2011, a woman
reads a list which describes the dead for families searching for missing loved
ones, posted at a shelter in the earthquake- and tsunami-destroyed town of
Minamisanriku, northeastern Japan. Of the 17,666 people who once here, at least
322 have been confirmed dead and thousands more have disappeared _ still buried
in the ruins or sucked out to sea as the mighty wall of water receded. (AP
Photo/David Guttenfelder) PART OF A 25-PICTURE PACKAGE BY DAVID GUTTENFELDER
WITH STORY "JAPAN EARTHQUAKE ONE TOWN'S FATE"
Survivors push bicycles along streets in the devastated city of
Ishinomaki, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, Thursday, March 24 2011, after
an powerful earthquake and resulting tsunami devastated the area about two weeks
ago.(AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
In this photo taken Thursday, March 24, 2011, Jin Sato,
the mayor of in the earthquake- and tsunami-destroyed town of Minamisanriku,
northeastern Japan, is surrounded by local media as he gives a daily briefing
inside the shelter where he temporarily works and lives. The mayor had a staff
of around 230 before the tsunami but says that 35 of them are missing. The sheer
extent of the devastation wrought on March 11 raises serious questions: Should
the dozens of shattered communities along these shores be rebuilt at all? Can
they be, when up to half their inhabitants are gone and survivors know it could
happen again? (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Asuka Oyama, 10, prayed over the coffin of Katsuko Oyama during
a cremation ceremony on Thursday in Minamisanriku. The family lost three family
members in the tsunami. March 24, 2011
In this photo taken Thursday, March 24, 2011, boxes of
food supplies are piled high inside a gymnasium at an arena used as a refugee
shelter in the earthquake- and tsunami-destroyed town of Minamisanriku,
northeastern Japan. Aid supplies like food, clothing, gas, medicine has begun to
arrive from the prefecture government, private donations, and aid drives abroad.
(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) 
Medical workers in protective gear gather around an
ambulance which arrived at a hospital in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture,
Japan, carrying two workers from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear
power plant after they stepped into contaminated water while laying electrical
cables in one unit Thursday, March 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Jun
Yasukawa) 
Japan's Self-Defense Force personnel pass a woman
recovering valuables from her damaged home, Friday, March 25, 2011 A suspected
breach in the reactor core at one unit of a stricken Fukushima nuclear plant
could mean more serious radioactive contamination, Japanese officials said
Friday, revealing what may prove a major setback in the mission to bring the
leaking plant under control. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
A U.S. Marine based in Japan directs heavy lifting equipment on March 25 as
reconstruction work continues at Sendai airport.
A man takes pictures of a whale museum damaged by the tsunami in Yamada town,
Iwate Prefecture on March 25.
Miyako town, Iwate prefecture March 25, 2011
Earthquake survivors identified family members at a
temporary burial ground in Higashi Matsushima. Under Buddhist practice,
cremation is the traditional way of dealing with the dead. But now, with the
death toll so high, crematoriums are overwhelmed. March 25, 2011
Japan's Self Defense Forces prepared to transfer workers who had
been exposed to radiation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant to a
hospital. March 25, 2011
Otsuchi, in Iwate prefecture on March 26, 2011
Otsuchi
「友達作戦」に参加するＨＳＬ５１部隊の隊員。右腕には「OPERATION
TOMODACHI」とともに「友」「がんばろう日本」の文字が刻まれたワッペンが ＝26日午前、米軍三沢基地 (古厩正樹撮影) 産経 
Mourners stood around flimsy wood coffins buried at a hastily
prepared cemetery in Keseunnuma, Miyagi Prefecture. March 26, 2011
Evacuees form a queue to receive rice and other rations
at food distribution center at Minamisoma, northeastern Japan, Saturday, March
26, 2011, following the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and the subsequent crisis
at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun,
Tsuyoshi Yoshioka)
After hammering a nail into a coffin lid, a Japanese
mourner at a mass funeral in Yamamoto, northeastern Japan Saturday, March 26,
2011 cries and touches the top of a coffin containing a loved one who died in
the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Japanese soldiers, on a mission to search and rescue,
move around the rubble in the town of Otsuchi, northeastern Japan, on Saturday,
March 26, 2011, after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima
nuclear power complex. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
A survivor walks in the devastated city of Ofunato,
Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, March 26, 2011, after an
powerful earthquake and resulting tsunami devastated the area about two weeks
ago. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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. (AP Photo/The
Yomiuri Shimbun, Tetsu Joko)
A search and rescue team from Turkey work among the
rubble at the coastal town of Shichigahama, northeastern Japan, Saturday, March
26, 2011, following the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and the subsequent crisis
at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun,
Kunihiko Miura)
People look at a grounded cargo ship on a pier in
Kamaishi port in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Saturday, March 26, 2011,
after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami devastated the area. (AP Photo/Koji
Sasahara)
A Japanese mourner cries for a loved one during a mass
funeral in Higashimatsushima, northeastern Japan Saturday, March 26, 2011,
following the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and the subsequent crisis at the
Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
U.S. Marine Alex Lay, 23, second left, of Philadelphia, Pa. ,
leads U.S. soldiers as they unload hardware to install hot showers at a
makeshift shelter for displaced residents from the massive tsunami, Saturday,
March 26, 2011 in Higashi Matsushima, Japan. With 50,000 troops stationed across
the country, the U.S. military has been quick to respond to the tsunami that
devastated northeast Japan.
Family members of victims of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and
tsunami stand next a coffin as more coffins arrive at a mass funeral in
Kassenuma town, Miyagi prefecture March 26, 2011. Ten flimsy wood coffins were
laid on two sturdy rails at a hastily prepared cemetery of mostly mud as
Keseunnuma began burying its dead from the tsunami that ripped apart the
Japanese coastal city. Desperate municipalities such as Kesennuma have been
digging mass graves, unthinkable in a nation where the deceased are almost
always cremated and their ashes placed in stone family tombs near Buddhist
temples. Local regulations often prohibit burial of bodies.
Yukiko Umehara, center, reacted with delight after finding her
cousin's childhood diary in the ruins of her house in Tanohata, Iwate
Prefecture. March 27, 2011
Family members prayed over the coffin of Masami Takahashi at a
temporary burial site in Kesennuma, Japan, on Sunday. March 27, 2011
Damaged cars and trucks destroyed in the recent earthquake and
resulting tsunami are placed in a yard at the port of Miyako, Iwate prefecture
on March 27, 2011.
Family members retrieved photographs that belonged to their
missing grandparents from debris in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Monday.
March 28, 2011
A group of women examined an article found near Okawa
Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, where roughly 80 percent of
the students and teachers were killed or are missing after the earthquake and
tsunami. March 28, 2011
A woman cleans debris in her house which was destroyed by the
9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma town in Miyagi prefecture
March 28, 2011
People look through articles as they search for their children's
belongings near the tsunami-hit Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi
Prefecture, northeastern Japan March 28, 2011. About eighty percent of the
students and teachers were killed or are missing after the school was devastated
by a tsunami following the March 11 earthquake.
School bags recovered from Okawa primary school in Ishinomaki
are seen. Only 24 of 84 schoolchildren and 13 teachers have been confirmed as
alive by the school
Schoolbags are recovered from Okawa elementary school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi
prefecture on March 22. Only 24 of 84 schoolchildren and 13 teachers have been
found alive so far. After the earthquake hit, all the schoolchildren and
teachers prepared for evacuation in the school yard. Some children left for
their homes with family members. While the rest of the children were waiting to
be collected, the tsunami hit.
Local firefighters carry the body of 85-year-old Kotomi Murakami from her
collapsed house in Rikuzentakata city, Iwate prefecture on March 29. The number
of confirmed dead and people listed as missing from the earthquake and tsunami
that devastated Japan's northeast coast topped 28,000, the National Police
Agency said
Asphalt is used to patch up a damaged road outside Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu,
east of Tokyo on March 29. Tokyo Disneyland was shut down after the March 11
earthquake and has been closed ever since. The theme park suffered minor damage,
including cracked paths and soil liquefaction.
A volunteer gives a massage to an evacuee at an evacuation center
in Koriayama, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, March 29, 2011, located
about 70 km (44 miles) from the tsunami-crippled nuclear reactor.
A girl watches her brother play beside debris in Rikuzentakata
city, Iwate prefecture on March 29, 2011.
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers salute before
removing debris from a high school during a joint operation with the U.S.
military in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Wednesday, March 30, 2011.
Since the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan on March 11, Japan
Self-Defense Forces have mobilized for their biggest mission since 1945, sending
more than 100,000 troops, roughly half of their total force, or virtually
everyone who isn't needed on an essential mission elsewhere, out to the
worst-hit areas to lead a mind-bogglingly immense recovery effort. (AP
Photo/Wally Santana) 
ガレキの中から肉親を見つけ、座り込む女性。震災から３週間が過ぎようとしているが、まだまだ行方がわからない人たちが数多くいる＝岩手県陸前高田市で２０１１年３月３１日午後２時２４分、岩下幸一郎撮影
避難所になっている矢本東小の教室でミニチュアダックスフントの蘭丸と過ごす熊谷葵さん（１５）。同校にはペット同伴の部屋が設けられており蘭丸は自由に走り回ることができる。「愛犬は家族の一員、自宅は床上浸水にあったけど、助かってよかった」＝宮城県東松島市で３１日午前９時１分、幾島健太郎撮影
A survivor looks for his car in the tsunami-destroyed town of
Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan, Thursday, March 31, 2011. (AP
Photo/Vincent Yu)
A broken road is seen at the tsunami-destroyed area of Miyako,
Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan, Thursday, March 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Vincent
Yu)
worker repairs damaged electricity pole and power lines
in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami-destroyed town of Onagawa, Miyagi
prefecture, northeastern Japan, Thursday, March 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Lee
Jin-man)
Members of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) of
India remove the rubble to find victims at the earthquake and tsunami devastated
area in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan Thursday, March 31, 2011. (AP
Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
People retrieve tableware from a destroyed restaurant
following the March 11 tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake in Yamada,
Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Thursday, March 31, 2011.(AP Photo/Kyodo
News)
 Victims are buried on a hill above the March 11
earthquake and tsunami devastated town of Onagawa, background, Miyagi
Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Thursday, March 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Atsushi
Takatazu)
Women spend a moment of silence next to coffins of victims of the
March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a temporary mass gravesite in
Higashi-Matsushima in Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan March 31, 2011.
A little girl is helped by a man in burying the coffin of an
earthquake victim with dirt at a grave site at Higashimatsushima, northeastern
Japan,
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