A small monument to victims sits in front of an abandoned house near the coastline of of Namie, on September 22, 2013
The Atlantic
Toppled tsunami barriers, and a rusting wrecked car near Namie town, on September 23, 2013
With cranes and chimneys of the crippled Daiichi nuclear power plant in the background, a beach littered with barriers, wrecked cars and other debris in the coastal area of Namie, on September 23, 2013
A swimming pool of a primary school in the tsunami-destroyed coastal area of the town of Namie, on September 22, 2013
Street lamps light the street in the empty town of Namie in Fukushima prefecture, on September 23, 2013. Namie was formerly home to more than 20,000 residents
A security officer blocks the road from Route 6 into the the exclusion zone near the tsunami-crippled Daiichi nuclear power plant near Tomioka in Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on September 13, 2013
This combination of pictures shows the view of a tsunami hit area of Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on March 14, 2011 (right side) and the same scene as it appears on January 15, 2012
After image of Miyako on February 17, 2012
Before image of Miyako on March 11, 2011