The
rubble caused by an earthquake and tsunami fill the landscape in
Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011, three days
after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by an earthquake and
tsunami. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)
A
soldier holds a four-month-old baby who survived the tsunami with her
family at Ishinomaki city in Miyagi prefecture on March 14, 2011.
(Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP/Getty Images) #
A
man cycles by a ship at Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan,
Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered
tsunami hit Japan's east coast. (Shizuo Kambayashi/Associated Press) #
A
member of Japan Air Self-Defense Force rescues a victim in Ishinomaki,
northern Japan, two days (Sunday, March 13, 2011) after a powerful
earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast. (The Yomiuri
Shimbun, Makoto Kondo/Associated Press) #
Houses
and infrastructures devastated by a strong earthquake and tsunami in
Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Monday March 14, 2011. (Associated
Press/Kyodo News) #
An
aerial taken on March 14, 2011 during an AFP-chartered flight shows an
area destroyed by the tsunami in Sendai in Miyagi prefecture three days
after a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami devastated the
coast of eastern Japan. (Noboru Hashimoto/AFP/Getty Images) #
Survivors
of Friday's earthquake and tsunami spend time at an evacuation center
in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, March
14, 2011. (Park Ji-ho, Yonhap/Associated Press) #
People
walk a road between the rubble of destroyed buildings in Minamisanriku
town, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. (The
Yomiuri Shimbun, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto/Associated Press) #
A
family rests in a shelter in Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan,
Monday, March 14, 2011. three days after a massive earthquake and
tsunami struck the country's north east coast. On top of the losses of
family and friends and property, evacuees in the area are now faced with
the fears of radiation contamination from damaged nuclear facilities
near by. (Wally Santana/Associated Press) #
Residents
buy food at a temporarily opened supermarket in Sendai, northeastern
Japan March 14, 2011. The supermarket set a limit on buying items at
five per person. Japan battled on Monday to prevent a nuclear
catastrophe and to care for millions of people without power or water in
its worst crisis since World War II. (Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters) #
A
technician in protective gear looks out an automatic door with signs
reading "No entry except for those with permission" at a makeshift
facility to screen, cleanse and isolate people with high radiation
levels in Nihonmatsu, northern Japan March 14, 2011. (Yuriko
Nakao/Reuters) #
People
queue to be screened by a technician in protective gear for signs of
possible radiation in Nihonmatsu, northern Japan, March 14, 2011.
(Yuriko Nakao/Reuters) #
Technicians
scan Red Cross rescue workers for signs of radiation in Nagahama City,
Shiga Prefecture in northern Japan, March 14, 2011. (Reuters/Kyodo) #
People
use temporary phones set up for residents at the Natori City Hall in
Natori, Miyagi Prefecture on March 14, 2011. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty
Images) #
Survivors
scan a list of people missing since Friday's massive earthquake and the
ensuing tsunami at an evacuation center in Rikuzentakata in Iwate
Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. (Park Ji-ho,
Yonhap/Associated Press) #
People
check lists for survivors at an evacuation centre in in Natori City in
Miyagi prefecture on March 14, 2011. A new explosion at a nuclear plant
in nearby Fukushima prefecture hit Japan on March 14 as it raced to
avert a reactor meltdown. (Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images) #
Evacuees
hug each other as they confirm each other's safety at a makeshift
shelter in Otsuchicho town, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. (The
Yomiuri Shimbun, Yasuhiro Takami/Associated Press) #
A
pleasure boat sits on top of a building amid a sea of debris in Otsuchi
town in Iwate prefecture on March 14, 2011. (Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP/Getty
Images) #
Rescue
workers look for missing people who were lost in the tsunami, in
Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 14, 2011. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty
Images) #
Elderly
people who evacuated from a town near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear
plant read newspapers at a shelter in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture,
Monday March 14, 2011. (Associated Press/Kyodo News) #
A
survivor of the tsunami that swept through his village of Saito, in
northeastern Japan, retells the story to a rescue team that arrived to
search the area Monday, March 14, 2011. Rescue workers used chain saws
and hand picks Monday to dig out bodies in Japan's devastated coastal
towns, as Asia's richest nation faced a mounting humanitarian, nuclear
and economic crisis in the aftermath of a massive earthquake and tsunami
that likely killed thousands. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press) #
Japanese
rescue workers carry the body of a tsunami victim in devastated town of
Otsuchi March 14, 2011. In the town of Otsuchi in Iwate prefecture,
12,000 out of a population of 15,000 are believed to have disappeared
following Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (Damir
Sagolj/Reuters) #
Japanese
rescue team members carry the body of a man from the village of Saito,
in northeastern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. Rescue workers used chain
saws and hand picks Monday to dig out bodies in Japan's devastated
coastal towns. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press) #
Soldiers
inspect the devastated area before they use heavy machinery in Noda
village, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. (Associated Press/The
Yomiuri Shimbun, Yoichi Hayashi) #
Japanese
soldiers urge an elderly woman to move to higher ground during a
tsunami warning Monday, March 14, 2011, in the harbor of Soma city,
Fukushima prefecture, Japan. (Wally Santana/Associated Press) #
An
emergency worker throws disinfectant powder in an area affected by an
earthquake and tsunami in Miyako, Iwate prefecture March 14, 2011. (Aly
Song Reuters) #
A
Japanese rescue team member walks through the completely leveled
village of Saito in northeastern Japan Monday, March 14, 2011. (David
Guttenfelder/Associated Press) #
A
joint team from the U.S. Air Force and Marines conduct a search and
rescue flight over Sendai airport in this U.S. Air Force handout photo
dated March 13, 2011. The team is part of the American disaster relief
force in Japan to assist with the earthquake and tsunami recovery
effort. (Picture taken March 13, 2011) (US Air Force/Staff Sgt. Samuel
Morse/Handout/Reuters) #
Images
provided by GeoEye show an area of Yuriage near Miyagi Prefecture,
Japan on April 4, 2010, left, and March 12, 2011. (GeoEye/Associated
Press) #
Still images from video footage March 14, 2011, shows the explosion at
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex. A hydrogen explosion rocked a
crippled nuclear power plant in Japan on Monday where authorities have
been scrambling to avert a meltdown following Friday's massive
earthquake and tsunami. (NTV via Reuters TV/Reuters) #
A
man comforts a woman as she cries in front of her damaged home in the
town of Watari in Miyagi prefecture on March 14, 2011. (Jiji
Press/AFP/Getty Images) #
Rescue
workers carry an elderly man found alive by tsunami survivors buried
under rubble along a slope of a hill in Minamisanrikucho in Iwate
Prefecture Monday, March 14, 2011. (The Yomiuri Shimbun, Hiroaki
Ohno/Associated Press) #
A
resident wipes tears as she finds no remains of her home, Monday, March
14, 2011, in Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. (Wally
Santana/Associated Press) #
A
girl's shoe sits in flood debris Monday, March 14, 2011, in the coastal
area of Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. (Wally
Santana/Associated Press) #
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