In this photo taken on April 7, 2011, a police officer cleans cashboxes collected from damaged houses at a police station in tsunami-hit Ofunato city, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Japan Earthquake: The Long Road to Recovery
A month after the tsunami devastation, Ren Sato, 9, cleans sand from the damaged family grave in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture on April 11, 2011
One thousand folded paper cranes hang on a wall at a volunteers center in Kesennuma city, Miyagi prefecture on April 14, 2011
Volunteers cook noodles for evacuees at an evacuation center in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, April 11, 2011. A group of 21 volunteers from Tokyo and Saitama brought Sunday 2,000 meals for about over 500 evacuees at the shelter
Tsunami survivor Kenichi Kurosawa (center) and his friends write the words "Ganbaro!" or "hang in there" on a new billboard lit up with car headlights in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture on April 10, 2011
A Buddhist monk prays for tsunami victims buried due to the lack of crematoriums in the town of Onagawa in Miyagi prefecture on April 13, 2011. Japanese usually cremate their dead, but the normal system has been unable to cope with the impact of the March
Footsteps lead away from an abandoned vehicle in the Odaka area of Minamisoma, inside the deserted evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on April 7, 2011
Pigs wander around at a devastated area in Minami Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan Friday, April 8, 2011. Dairy animals and pets were left behind after their owners have evacuated from the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
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