Two people walk along a street in a residential neighborhood in Onagawa, on March 19, 2011, eight days after the March 11 tsunami
Japan Earthquake: One Year Later
Hiromi Sato holds her son, Haruse, as they pose in front of a destroyed Minamisanriku town hospital, where a boat still perches atop the 5-story building, in Minamisanriku, on March 3, 2012
People pray as they attend a Buddhist memorial service at a makeshift shrine for the victims from Okawa Elementary School, killed in last years tsunami, on March 03, 2012 in Ishinomaki
Takahiro Shito, 47, sits next to a Buddhist altar, dedicated to his daugher, Chisato, 11, who was killed during last year's tsunami tragedy at Okawa Elementary School on March 03, 2012, in Ishinomaki
A police officer searches for bodies in an area damaged by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 9, 2012
A man washes a door in a bathtub, in an attempt to remove radioactive contamination, at a private house in Hirono, outside Japan's nuclear exclusion zone, on February 20, 2012
asuhiro Sagara, a member of a volunteer group from Tokyo, loses his boot in the thick mud as he works to clear buried drainage pipes on March 9, 2012 in Rikuzentakata, Japan. Volunteer groups have come from all across Japan to help in the massive recovery