A single pine tree that was left standing after the March 11 tsunami, which swept away an entire forest in the city of Rikuzentakata, is seen on March 07, 2012 in Rikuzentakata, Japan
Japan Earthquake: One Year Later
The Minamisanriku Disaster Emergency Center headquarters is seen out the window during a bus tour to learn about the effects of last year's March 11 earthquake and tsunami on March 05, 2012 in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture
Debris and non-recyclable home items lay strewn over the ground where houses and factories once stood on March 08, 2012 in Kesennuma, Japan
A man looks for his photographs at a collection center for items which were found in the rubble of an area devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, on March 9, 2012
A child takes cover underneath his desk during a disaster drill named "Shakeout Tokyo" at Izumi elementary school in Tokyo, on March 9, 2012
A student wears a radiation monitor on his shirt at Omika Elementary School, near the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, on March 8, 2012.
Manami Watanabe, 11, walks along a rail track which is no longer used since last year's tsunami in Minamisanriku town, in Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, on February 24, 2012
A Buddhist monk bows and offers a prayer in a neighborhood destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 9, 2012