A tsunami-wrecked supermarket is left abandoned in the Odaka area of Minamisoma, inside the deserted evacuation zone established for the 20 kilometer radius around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors on April 8, 2011
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Desks and chairs remain covered with mud in a classroom at Okawa Elementary School, devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan on April 7, 2011.
Collared dogs roam on a street in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, April 15, 2011
A uniform swings in the wind in the tsunami devastated area of Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture on April 10, 2011
In April 8, 2011 photo, slippers are left in the entrance of a building in the Odaka area of Minamisoma, inside the deserted evacuation zone established for the 20 kilometer radius around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors
A cow roams on a street after residents in town evacuated in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2011
(3 of 3) Reporter Toya Chiba is swept up by a tsunami at Kamaishi port, Iwate prefecture on March 11, 2011. Chiba managed to survive the tsunami by grabbing a dangling rope and climbing onto a coal heap
(2 of 3) Reporter Toya Chiba is swept up by a tsunami at Kamaishi port, Iwate prefecture on March 11, 2011. Chiba managed to survive the tsunami by grabbing a dangling rope and climbing onto a coal heap
(1 of 3) Toya Chiba, a reporter for local newspaper Iwate Tokai Shimbun, is swept up by a tsunami at Kamaishi port, Iwate prefecture during the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Chiba managed to survive the tsunami by grabbing a dangling rope and climbing