Japanese tsunami: One year on
7 Mar 2012
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Tayo Kitamura, 40, kneels in the street next to the body of her mother Kuniko Kitamura, 69, who was found inside the ruins of her home in Onagawa, Japan -
One year on, a newly built home stands on the site of the now-cleared but destroyed area of in Onagawa. A few homes have been rebuilt since a the earthquake and tsunami, but most communities remain unrecognisable, and their residents futures uncertain -
Residents of Kesennuma travel on a road cleared by bulldozers through the ruins of the city -
The monstrous task of removing towering piles of twisted metal and debris has been completed -
A survivor rides his bicycle through the levelled city of Minamisanriku. The tsunami swept away nearly every business and every job, and buried bodies beneath the splintered wood of shattered homes -
While the streets of Minamisanriku are free of rubble, rebuilding has barely begun, leaving those who remain anxious about what the future holds -
The tsunami sent many residents Onagawa running toward the safest place they knew ýýý the local nuclear power plant -
The monstrous wall of water destroyed nearly everything in this fishing community, turning homes and businesses to rubble -
A ship sits in the destroyed residential neighbourhood of Kesennuma -
A year after the earthquake many of the boats carried inland by the tsunami have been removed. But some, like this one, remain -
Three photos show an aerial view of the Yuriage district in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, taken, from top, before, soon after and nearly one year after the devastating earthquake and tsunami -
Three photos show the aerial view of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, taken, from top, before, soon after and nearly one year after the disaster -
Three photos shows the aerial view of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, taken, from top, before, soon after and nearly one year after the disaster
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