An excavator controls flames as local government burns flammable rubble at the tsunami-devastated town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture on May 9, 2011
Japan Earthquake: Two Months Later
A stray cat sits near a destroyed house in an area destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, May 9, 2011
A wrecked car carries a flag of Shotaro Ishinomori's cartoon character "Cyborg 009" at a devastated area by the March 11 tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, May 5, 2011
Tokyo Power Electric Co., (TEPCO) President Masataka Shimizu kneels and bows deeply, in apology, toward evacuated Namie Town residents at Nihonmatsu City Hall Towa Branch on May 4, 2011 in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, Japan
A member of the Japan Self-Defense Force searches for victims at an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kamaishi, Iwate prefecture, on April 20, 2011
A wooden cross stands amid the tsunami devastation at a place where a church used to stand in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture on April 22, 2011
People make their way through flooded streets due to high tide and a land mass lowered by the March 11th earthquake on April 19, 2011 in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan
Japanese dairy farmer Masakatsu Kosone feeds his cows at his farm in the village of Katsurao in Fukushima prefecture, 25 km west of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant on May 3, 2011 after returning from a shelter in Fukushima City
A man cycles among the rubble in an area devastated by the Match 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Thursday, April 14, 2011