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The tsunami wave crashes over a street in Miako city, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on March 11^th. 

Mainichi Shimbun Newspaper.

In this March 11 photo released by Shinchi Sato via Kyodo News, people hang on to an antenna tower and handrails on the roof of the Government Disaster Readiness Centre in Minamisanriku, northeastern Japan, as the tsunami triggered an earthquake and overwhelms to town. About 30 people fled to the roof of the three-storey disaster center, and some 20 were swept away.  

Distributed in the USA by the Associated Press.

A man makes his way through devastated Shishiori township of Kesennuma in Miyagi prefecture, Japan, March 16, 2011.  

Photo by Shiho Fukada

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A house sits upside down in an open field along the coast near Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Friday, March 25, 2011.  

By David Guttenfelder/Associated Press

An ocean going ship sits where it came to rest in the debris of the great 25m high (82 ft.) tsunami that hit Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture following the massive earthquake that struck under the sea off of Japan.

By James Whitlow Delano/Redux.

In the Aftermath of the Tsunami a woman sat among the debris in Natori.

Photo by Toshiyuki Tsunenari via Asahi Shimbun via the Associated Press

A couple looked at the body of their daughter, whom they found in the vehicle of a driving school in Yamamoto.

via Kyodo News via the Associated Press

Yoshikatsu Hiratsuka grieves in front of wreckage where the body of his mother is buried in Onagawa, northern Japan Thursday, March 17, 2011. Hiratsuka kept crying out, saying "Sorry, Sorry" that he couldn't have helped her from tsunami.

By Hiroto Sekiguchi /The Yomiuri Shimbun, via the Associated Press

Tayo Kitamura, 40, kneels in the street to caress and talk to the wrapped body of her mother Kuniko Kitamura, 69, after Japanese firemen discovered the dead woman inside the ruins of her home in Onagawa, northeastern Japan Saturday, March 19, 2011.

By David Guttenfelder/Associated Press

Tsunami survivor Hiroko Asanuma, 26, with her baby Ryo, is searching for any memory items or anything worth at the debris of her tsunami destroyed house in Onagawa, Miyagi, March 24, 2011.

Photo by Q. Sakamaki/Redux

Portrait of a young boy found several kilometers inland from the sea, swept there by the great 25m high (82 ft.) tsunami where it was exposed to the snow, Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.  The fate of the young boy in the photograph is unknown.

By James Whitlow Delano/Redux.

Chieko Chiba looks for remains of her house in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, March 16, 2011. “Everything is gone."  she said.

Photo by Shiho Fukada for the International Herald Tribune.

Tsunami survivor Yuji Takagi, 34, stands at the debris of his father's destroyed house, 11 days after the wave came. He is searching for his father. Kesennuma, Miyagi, March 23, 2011.

Photo by Q. Sakamaki/Redu

The center of Minamisanriku, a fishing port on Japan’s northeastern coast, has disappeared.  As I looked down from a hilltop while on assignment there last week, it was hard for me to imagine that a town had really existed, that people had had lives there. Most of the houses were built on plains between mountains and were gone. As I walked through the debris, I found very few signs of life. What I did find — spotted throughout the rubble — were photographs. They held what few fragments of people’s lives still remained.A wedding photo found amid rubble. March 15, 2011. 

Ko Sasaki for the New York Times.

A Japanese Self Defence Force (SDF) soldier looks out at the devastation reflected in the window. Thousands of people died in this small town which ran out of body bags. On 11 March 2011 a magnitude 9 earthquake struck 130 km off the coast of Northern Japan causing a massive Tsunami that swept across the coast of Northern Honshu. The earthquake and tsunami caused extensive damage and loss of life.

Adam Dean/Panos Pictures

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ISHINOMAKI, MIYAGI PREFECTURE JAPAN-APRIL 4, 2011 - Rescue workers search for bodies in the rubble of tsunami damage in this residential section town near the water. The March 11 killed 10's of thousands of people. 

ByDavid Butow/Redux.

A woman discovers that one of her relatives has died after reading her name on a list posted at the city hall in Natori.

Photograph by Dominic Nahr/ Magnum for Time Magazine

Five-year-old Yusei Saito carries flowers to lay at grave N. 576, where his grandmother’s body lies, at a temporary burial site for victims of the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, in the city of Ishinomaki, Miaygi Prefecture, on April 10^th. The boy’s grandfather also died in the disaster and is buried at separate site. The city plans to cremate all of the bodies of victims within two years.

Mainichi Shimbun Newspaper.

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.

By Carlos Barria/Reuters

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Evacuees in Tokyo, many of which come from Fukushima prefecture, wait in line for food at the Saitama Super Arena where up to 5000 people seek shelter and 500 volunteers help.

Photograph by Dominic Nahr/ Magnum for Time Magazine

Eight year old year old Gakuto Ushirokawa has his first opportunity to bath, in nearly two weeks, at a temporary facility arranged by the Japan Self Defence Force. Gakuto's house was not destroyed in the tsunami but his family have been without running water since the tsunami hit eleven previously. On 11 March 2011 a magnitude 9 earthquake struck 130 km off the coast of Northern Japan causing a massive Tsunami that swept across the coast of Northern Honshu. The earthquake and tsunami caused extensive damage and loss of life.

Adam Dean/Panos Pictures

A father brushes his daughter's teeth at an unheated evacuation center for survivors of the tsunami in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, where 700 people whose homes have been damaged or destroyed, live.  There is no running water at the middle school which serves as an evacuation center.  So, water must be used sparingly.  The cold comes down hardest on children and seniors.

By James Whitlow Delano/Redux.

Japanese survivors take refuge inside a make shift shelter at a school gym in Natori after their homes have been destroyed by the earthquake and the Tsunami.

Photograph by Dominic Nahr/ Magnum for Time Magazine

Kenji Shimizu, 57, is lying at Rihu gymnastic stadium evacuation site in Sendai, Miyagi, on March 20, 2011. He escaped the tsunami by car yet lost everything like so many survivors. Then he moved to this evacuation site, and became ill.

Photo by Q. Sakamaki/Redux

March 19th, 2011, Yamagata City: Children who were evacuated from Minamisoma, Soma and other towns and villages located near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Powerplant are playing inside the sports arena of the Yamagata Sports Center in Yamagata City.

Christoph Bangert/laif/Redux for Stern 

This combo made from images by GeoEye shows the Arahama area of Sendai, Japan on April 10, 2010, left, and March 12, 2011, after a magnitude 9 earthquake struck causing a tsunami that devastated the region.

GeoEye/The Associated Press.

A young survivor listens to elders talking inside a cold room before a mass funeral at a Daiou temple in Minami Sanriku.

Photograph by Dominic Nahr/ Magnum for Time Magazine

Earthquake and Tsunami damage, Japan-March 14, 2011: This is a satellite image of Japan showing damage after an Earthquake and Tsunami.

Photo by DigitalGlobe. 

People work in the control room of reactor No. 2 with restored lighting at the earthquake and tsunami affected Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima in this March 26, 2011 photo from Tokyo Electric Power Co. made available by Kyodo. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said on March 27, 2011 radiation 10 million times the usual level was detected in water that had accumulated at the No.2 reactor's turbine housing unit and a TEPCO official said that workers at the reactor had left to prevent exposure to radiation.

Photograph released by Tokyo Electric Power Co./Kyodo News/Reuters

March 24th, 2011, Fukushima City: A young girl who was evacuated from a town near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is checked for traces of radiation before she and her family are permitted to enter the Azuma Gymnasium, a sports facility in Fukushima City, where about 1200 evacuees found temporary shelter.

Christoph Bangert/laif/Redux for Stern 

Official in protective gear talks to a woman who is from the evacuation area near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in Koriyama March 13, 2011. Japan battled to contain a radiation leak at an earthquake-crippled nuclear plant on Sunday, but faced a fresh threat with the failure of the cooling system in a second reactor.

By Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

A woman covered with mud pauses as she cleans her business premises at a shopping area damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, northern Japan April 4, 2011. Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said on Monday it would release more than 10,000 tonnes of contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea to free up more storage space for water that had much higher levels of radioactivity.

By Carlos Barria/Reuters

A man (bottom) looks for his personal belongings at a collection center for items found in the rubble of an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Natori, northern Japan, April 12, 2011.

By Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters.

A piano is submerged in water in the area devastated by tsunami in Rikuzentakat March 21, 2011. Japan faces a mammoth disaster relief and reconstruction effort after its worst-ever earthquake triggered a tsunami that devastated the country's northeastern coast, killing thousands and spawned a severe nuclear crisis.

By Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Students do independent study in a hallway at Ando Elementary School, which is serving as an evacuation shelter, in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 19, 2011. Classes don't begin until April 20, but worries about students' daily schedules being thrown off by post-tsunami life led the school to start the studies. Every day, around 20 students have been studying for around 30 to 90 minutes. "I think we'll get the semester off to a smooth start," said a 39-year-old teacher who guides the students.

Mainichi Shimbun Newspaper.

Workers footsteps in caked mud outside a destroyed  factory in Sendai, Japan.

Photograh by Jake Price

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